All user reviews for the Echo Indigo I/O

I tried the sound card indigo with my laptop so you can record sound with the WaveLab software. I have an omni-directional microphone that picks up very finely and malhaureusement I get a very low gain recording. (I have yet to put the vomume background).
How do you explain?

USE

I tried the sound card indigo with my laptop so you can record sound with the WaveLab software. I have an omni-directional microphone that picks up very finely and malhaureusement I get a very low gain recording. (I have yet to put the vomume background).
How do you explain?

IMPLEMENTATION

I tried the sound card indigo with my laptop so you can record sound with the WaveLab software. I have an omni-directional microphone that picks up very finely and malhaureusement I get a very low gain recording. (I have yet to put the vomume background).
How do you explain?

NOTICE GLOBAL

I tried the sound card indigo with my laptop so you can record sound with the WaveLab software. I have an omni-directional microphone that picks up very finely and malhaureusement I get a very low gain recording. (I have yet to put the vomume background).
How do you explain?

My configuration, Gericom P4 2.53 Mhz 512 MB DDR ATI 9000 DVD Writer

UTILIZATION

Install the driver, dye portable, plug the card and restarting, no problem of conflict
when the card is INSERR is the indigo which is automatically set as the default peripherals. The manual advocates a small sheet, and a PDF file does not explain much.

GETTING STARTED

The drivers are stable in 24/44, I had some small cuts in 24/96 but I think that Win XP optimization arrange the matter, SX takes a lot of resource latency is 11ms default 24/44 to 24/96, but falls in 5ms, I say default because they can get 2ms in 24/44 and 24/96 by Ms A, I turn 11ms months via a Roland XP50 and nothing is dcelable with Synth VSTi, stability is positively admirable, I have used so far only ten Vst synth and the rest in the South, in terms of audio, I do not know anything yet, all fawn, not to the quality of the map that there will be more or less optional on SX, more effects, more audio, more VST, it dpend processor.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a month can be e which is not enough to take a step back and say it's a real bomb, but for now I have nothing to complain, the dynamics is excelente, the beach frequency drives are used for hair cell of synthetic big bass with beautiful flutes.
any fawn, that price is the only card to a laptop to work peacefully with his synth via midi keyboard of the month with respect to Cubase SX.
In conclusion n'sitez not, it's a great product vritablement

J'tais motivated to buy it because Echo makes good products gnral, Layla, Gina, and her friends ...
I wanted to do disparatre background noise of the card chipset on my laptop IBM thinkpad, and spend a few taken in 24-96 DSIR amliorer the quality of applications effect on work samples.
1 / 1 out: Perfect
Piti a knob for volume ... acceptable
I installed on an IBM T23 PIII 1 GHz 256K RAM on W2000 Pro
Let's go

UTILIZATION

- Installation is no problem it? : YES
- Have you encountered any incompatibilities? : NOT YET
- The configuration gnrale is easy? : YES
- The manual is clear and sufficient? ... CDROM: OK> no booklet

Like all PCMCIA cards: it heats hard! j'espre that will hold a ... I will ask SCV (distrubuteur Franais) me confirm ...

No problem so ... a priori ...

GETTING STARTED

I do not think that under the W2000 drivers are stable trs, I expect the latest UpGrade ... if there is a. .. I met a few more random image software startup (few), but may be of c'tait something else ... I test again

In Asio or DX: no latency (small) - I use it for a good live sound, configuration: PC as a USB MIDI keyboard with sampler - software: Cakewalk V Sampler - This also works well with trs NI Kontakt.

A cable provided> 3.5 Stereo Jack --------- + Dual RCA adapted RCA/Jack6: not bad!
Between 1 Stereo sound for decision-24bit 96kHz - enough that the search (like me)
1 out Same Good (except the connections - I think that with use, a user will ...) around the plastic limit is ... we'll see in time> logically it for the Laptop Live then the connection should follow ... right?

OVERALL OPINION

I am satisfied with the product but I find a cheap 250 (200> OK)
I possde another sound card for the studio, I'll use that trs little to use Home Studio shoot. For laptopeurs I think it's a good product.
J'tais not looking at the price of the era so much I wanted, So now that I + Fauch I think 200 is the limit and with a better connection.

A small flat again, the card is no longer recognized by the system (W2000) APRS return from sleep mode. It must leave and re-enter the slot: J'espre that there will be an UPGRADE.
J'espre so that there will be an echo from Echo ...

Ngocier its price ... There's way I think ...

I just bought this sound card to get into the 100% virtual and hard sell my hardware (synthexpander).
I chose it for its price, drivers for ASIO 2.0, and for the incredibly low latency (<3ms to 44.1)
My laptop is a small
Celeron 1.8 Ghz
4200 30 GB hard turns
768 DDR RAM
15.1 "
Windows XP Home with all the patches

UTILIZATION

Installation without any pb using the latest drivers caught in the net.
No pb of compatibility.
I looked for 10 minutes in Cubase SL to choose the right paramtres and get the lowest latency possible.
RAS

GETTING STARTED

The drivers are very stable under XP with Cubase.
The sound is amazing, no breath, redcouverts treble, deep bass ...
Latency is almost non-existent on my little config:

Cubase SL, I'm running without any worries VSTi 10, 2 audio tracks, Thurs + rel time via MIDI keyboard!

My little slowed down, a little Celeron PC (clicks) when I hold an audio track (record) with 5 VSTi greedy, but that's normal ...

I wait to test it with that I'll buy Atmosphere ending for ...

For cons I fear for the small connector (gold plated mini jack): we will use.

Little trouble in my XP: my laptop does not boot if the card is plugged in, but comes from my PC.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had three days, I just test the bottom, and I really urge anyone who wants to play virtual instruments.
I test before external USB cards, and although there's no pictures!

Wonderful product ECHO run to buy!

Update: I upgrade my laptop 768 MB RAM, for use with Atmosphre: genial!

Currently used as a good map input output requires no external power supply for a laptop 3.06Go PIV / 512 MB RAM (D3010 Amilo d7830).
This card meets my expectations for 220 € uros (or they at Music Stars aligned competition .. obliged).

UTILIZATION

- The installation is done it without problems?

Yes: RAS

- Have you encountered any incompatibilities?

Niet: RAS

- The general configuration is easy?

Ultra pfffff ...

- The manual is clear and sufficient? ...

Uh, no real good go the pdf manual on the CD but it's a card in an out ... There's he need a user manual?

GETTING STARTED

- The drivers are stable?

Huge, nothing to say again ....
In addition to the true Echo MultiClient (4 virtual sources)

- Are they updated frequently?

A priori it is marked on the box ... to see if their site has new y'en

- What software do you use most often?

Steinberg stuff, others in Ableton ...

- What you get lag?

I get 1.8 ms latency at 24-bit/96kHz

- How many tracks you get to record / play simultaneously? ...

Not tested thoroughly yet ...

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?

... ² days he he

- What is so special that you like best ...

It is one of the only one to be self-powered and compact at this point

... the least?

3.5 minijack it .... tense shall we say!

- Have you tried many other models before buying it?

No, not really, but was a lapriorité mobility and so I wanted a very good card with no external power supply ..

- How would you rate the quality / price?

I am for the quality and € 220 (1443.1023 Francs) for size ... it's expensive per square meter!! But no, it's going!

- With experience, you do again this choice? ... Absolutly

I chose the Echo Indigo I / O to use VSTi in RPET and scne with my Laptop. I dj a Tascam US122 possde I also bought this in mind (USB port, and small size to win easily and move from desktop to laptop) but Tascam has always refused to work properly on my laptop: the usual PBS, cracking, etc ...
Echo with any of these problems! Trs low latency, no crash in use, its perfect for use as I did (I did not even test the recording).
My config Laptop: Compaq Evo N610C 2GHz 512MB XP Pro HD30.
The connection seems fragile. Mini jack for use RPET-frquente scne, o is the big cable industry that do well on the toy, seems to me a dodgy. The volume button on the top can be handled easily. I prfr the card is connected to a beefier box spar.

UTILIZATION

No pb installation.
Map IMMEDIATE recognized APRS putting the drivers.
Only problem, if I leave the card in the slot sometimes the microphone does not start. It is better that I leave boot, then I put the card. As against it can be removed and the hot hand several times without problem.

GETTING STARTED

I use the 6.10 drivers provided home and I did not take the time to do the update.
I use it with V-Stack + of + Hypersonic + freeware VST Sampletank.
Config trs stable.
My matres keyboards: Korg M1 1 + 1 Miditech Midistart2 connections on M-Audio Midisport 2x2.

OVERALL OPINION

I have been using 15d. I regret the connections, that's all.
J'apprcie stability of Systm, low latency, which can play live with the same sound that house! With a laptop you can get an mga expander and cheap as this card is available trs (in 200). Obviously to make the sound and record srieusement, missing inputs / outputs, but it is not his goal. I think also use it to save the group from its unique RPET.
I do it again this choice without hsiter.

Hello.
I t audiophile owner of a USB, which allowed me to move from fixed to mobile with one card.
What motivated me for this purchase, the PCMCIA and the fact that the card do not need external power supply to operate.
My laptop is a 2.0GHz P4 TEKNEO, 1GB RAM, WinXP Pro 40goDD ... with all the SHIFT
I use it mainly with Forte, and Cubase.
Gold-plated mini-jack connection, has, I admit to some concern but hey, for now, the air aa strong.
I put that 7 mini jack connectors

UTILIZATION

Installation without problem. It installs the driver, the reboot with the card, and it's good.
I probably worry a little of my laptop (TEKNEO is really the stew, I confirm the words of Bidibule, probably ending for I will change), which is that when I Get You Started with systmatiquement the card, the computer tape on the screen XP. Wild reboot, bios, and activate the power saving off (and all options for the economy of energy), reboot, and it's good ... weird ... but as a work ...
The panel config is super simple, and the big strong point, it is the 4 Virtual In, which allow to use several apps once, or when to route different instruments on diffrent outputs.

GETTING STARTED

Driver ultra stable, I have not had a single crash with the latest driver (taken in March 2004). For updates, for me, as a function I do not ... well, must see.
I mainly use for running high VSTi Plugsound type, native, and Ik ... operates a nickel, no prob, 2.6m latency 16/48 (painfully I reached the 10-11ms with the Audiophile USB), so for me it's all good. 24/96 test yet, will keep you informed.
On Cubase, I have not Russian overloading the map with a lot of audio ('AmpliTube') and the south, with a low latency 3 ms prs, so aa to turn the air .

OVERALL OPINION

I use it extensively for 2 weeks.
What I like most is the PCMCIA format, which allows me to reach an unimaginable level of latency with my old card. What I like least, bah .... the mini jack connection also, even if for now, I have no problem.
The map pretty hot too, I do not know if this is normal.
I tried a few before acqurir MODELS, firewire, USB ... is the price I pay that motivated me to buy it, the fact that I e dj a prampli.
I bought it for 190 euros okaz it was new, the person who sold me the problem with qq with another defective card, then replaced, and he sold me ( I confess a little complicated).
With exprience, I remake that choice without prob. It is a value sre.

Update 02/04/03:
Rp yesterday I stepped on the cable without expr, so that t eject the card in full operation ... not cool. It still works (ouf. ..), no problem, except that the cable jack is a little twisted at the fiche.Donc, I confirm, it is small and sturdy (except the ... minijack)

Updated 06/29/04
I changed my laptop, I dsormais a Sony PCG K115Z. No problem at boot, the card is a stability dconcertante, I do sessions of 4-5 hours without crash ... frankly, I stay on my mind, for those who need a card with an output between Stereo and it's really killing the card.

Then the big advantages is the transportabilit trs is compact, the PCMCIA format, an input and output with volume knob and a small indigo loupiote (forcment): effective, a bit spartan, What no frills. A little regret for the mini jack connectors but ...
I use it to record guitars, vocals and bass one by one and then one from enough.

I put not a cause of 10 mini-jacks.

A not it comes with a cable mini-jack Stereo-> 2 + 2 RCA Adapter RCA / Jack 6.35 gold plated and very practical as well as a bunch of soft in BMD ( Reacktor, Kontact, Cool Edit, Sound Forge and many other ...)

UTILIZATION

Installation without a problem but no error message consquence ...
No incompatibilitbr /> Config very simple
There is a small paper guide 5 points for easy installation (it is in English but trs clear).
The manual provided. Pdf on the cd-rom is clear and Retailer good but I just look becaufe even when the card is very simple.

GETTING STARTED

Drivers initials I do not know but the latest ones (which are the same in November when ...) are stable trs.
We can remove the card from the port when the computer but I want to plant if I want it back APRS. But it may be my drivers port which has, not the card.
The console comes with little to control the entry and exits 4 and the virtual master streos are well done with trs, fader VU meters, mute, pan for each channel (ie 12 in total ), and possibility of dsolidariser right / left.
I use my audio studio 2003 deluxe MAGIX walk and nickel as ASIO MME.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a week and a half and 219 for I'm thrilled I Discoveries bass and especially stro. It is very practical in its essentialism (b oula is a). What I like most is the format, the input and output with the wheel that goes very practical, what I like least is the format of the input jack e. ..

At qualitprix is ​​not too expensive and works well so it's not bad?

Trs trs a good choice not too expensive.

I needed a super easy card transport / use, to use the VSTi on my Fujitsu / siemmens amilo2400 800 of ram, DD20G.je also wanted to save my dirct waves from awa16g without going through the burn.
I need so that between 1 / sortie.....je not know existed, j'tais in the store to buy a MIDI keyboard .... then with the seller, we chat and he Submitted this product.

UTILIZATION

Install no problem, it' trs well explained in 4 points derrire the cover of the CD.
Provided with the driver, Windows Media Player not work, then the version 6.11 is available on the site echo, and everything works nickel.
I am a big stew in info, and I get to do what I wanted was to say to make music.

GETTING STARTED

Use could not be more simple.
It works, period.
Port pcipcma or something like a, is the format Credit Card, no cables for power supply .... nothing trane, but happiness.
For latency, I do not know the trick o checker, but when I play with the midi keyboard synt TRIANGLE with lots of effects, well there is no audible dcalage.

OVERALL OPINION

Bought last week, I lack nothing.
That's exactly what I needed with my stuff.
I'm happy!
C "is super small, is going anywhere, I do not scne with, then the small jacks, I do not care. As long as I pass signal, a roll for me.
Bought 200 euros in Music Action Toulouse (I made them the pub, because guys like a, not a short fields!), I am not sr m'tre plant and if I had not, well I need them.

Contrary to opinions expressed prcdemment I have the impression of being the exception that proves the RULES: I have known in fact the worst trouble with this card.

Not give, keep in mind that its main selling point is the zero-noise rduire gnrs particularly during ACCS hard drive and CD / DVD and render meaningless the latency ...

Hardware configuration: Portable bought Tekneo offer at a major retailer: Athlon 2000 + / 256MB RAM / Windows XP Pro /
Utiliss software to test the map: Cubase SX 1.0.6 / Windows Media Player / WinDVD

Your exact is simply catastrophic: the noises are always Submitted (or even more than the card's original low-end yet trs). Worse, in addition to unbearable crackling when using Cubase, and WinDVD. Information taken from the manufacturer's website, and APRS have tested every possible paramtrages number and size of audio buffers, your exact remains the same ... dsesprant.
About Windows Media Player is total stalemate ds dpart paramtrages since these are not even on offer!

UTILIZATION

- Installation is it without problem? No particular problem to install it.

- Have you experienced any incompatibility? -> A big YES.

- The configuration gnrale is easy?
- The manual is clear and sufficient? -> With these two questions, the rponse is clearly NO.

GETTING STARTED

Impossible to use.

OVERALL OPINION

There is little doubt that I make judgments STRID about this product that I hurried to go to my distributor.
I fell back on a simple USB card, not Folichon in latency, but at least almost completely eliminates unwanted noise. Tired of being a pigeon, do not push it!

Purchased in January for its compactness and simplicity, it was very musical and a huge momentum very low latency, 2 to 6 ms at 48k. We just play "Live"
I'm just wandering musician and I make my arrangements around with a mini keyboard and a PCR-M1 COMPAK Presario Notebook: Celeron 1.4G, 2x512M RAM, HITACHI Travelstar 7K60 hard disk, 60 gigabytes to 7200 mt.
One problem though: in addition to the mini jack, the output is unbalanced, one can clearly hear the clock of the PC. To solve this we must isolate. I found two small tranfos line (MONACOR LTR-110). Installed in a plastic box the size of a matchbox, they provide an impressive silence, a very detailed and contribute to the dynamics. That's perfect.

UTILIZATION

For installation just follow instructions, or else watch ... The Update 6.11 is very stable, though somewhat laborious to install.
No problems in use until 15 days ago when it suddenly refused to walk while screaming the laptop, like "lawn mower". Tested on other machines, it was ok. As for the offending COMPAK I accepted it without flinching other PCMCIA cards. A puzzle that ended with a reference card. Waiting ...
Configuration, very easy, even when asked to carefully observe the console ... a mute unwanted happens so quickly, especially in CUBASE.
The English manual is not really necessary but it is on paper, it is already.

GETTING STARTED

Software: Cubase VST, KOMPAKT, Symphonic Orchestra Silver, Plugsound 1, 2 and 6, WINAMP, Audacity is all. This machine is dedicated to music (mini XP optimized, no IE or Outlook, no network connection, 16-bit video without sleep or wallpaper, etc. ...). XP uses 64 million at rest.
Latency perfect: between 2 and 6 ms at 48k.
I noticed, however, only had to use moderately WINAMP plug in the genre Vocal Remover pacemaker or if you want to avoid some unwanted cracks.
As a craftsman two tracks are enough for me. I do not have audio, but the MIDI.

OVERALL OPINION

The PCMCIA is exquisite: it swipes the card and you get the "sound". I use another until his return.
Since January she has been busy, warm, just above the hard drive. (8 to 12 hours per day)

For that price and simplicity are there other choices?
As for sound, with the case of isolation, it is huge, more than the "Audiophile" my sets.

A again, I do it again, even if we always remember to always handle with care.

P4M 1.7
40GB HDD
512DDR

I use it for everything: recording del'audio, the south, the virtual ... everything!
It is convenient because it has no power transformer! weight savings and space!

UTILIZATION

Manual: everything is done alone!
there is no need for any manual is super simple
I encountered no compatibility with my system (I am the specialist Normalmente incompatibilities)!
However, you can hear parasites that can be resolved very easily by putting an adapter to power our laptop to make the connection land. I did it works great!

GETTING STARTED

Drivers top!
I use all software classic computer music:
Cubase, Reason ...
latency: impeccable!

OVERALL OPINION

For 6 months!
is the quality I remake that choice and consseillerai to all!
great look and how attractive price .... nine 190 euros!
My only regret is to have the RME Multiface Achte before that (1000 euros! Not cheap!) But at the time the indigo did not exist

- What characteristics have motivated your choice?
PCMCIA. dailleurs was the struggle to find a laptop with a PCMCIA port. but I did not want usb card (too bad) or firewire (no top).
- For what purpose?
music production and electro scene (liveset)
- What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Hard ,...)?
core2duo5500 1G ram and hard drive laptop musty
- Which instruments or the systems do you use? ...
zindoz

UTILIZATION

- The installation is done it without problems?
yes
- Have you experienced any incompatibilities?
not
- The general configuration is easy?
for there is to configure ...
- The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
not even consulted

GETTING STARTED

- The drivers are stable?
Yes. the occasional freezes that I come from the software I use
- Are they often updated?
update old this year so it's not bad
- What software do you use most often?
FLStudio 7
- What you get lag?
11 ms / 512 samples. the times when AC shit, sometimes less (to save, for example)
- How many tracks you get to record / play time? ...
bah given the number of in and out is anyone's guess ... on the other hand I did not see the usefulness of virtual tracks

by jai against the first card to replace my echo indigo parcequ'elle 3db had more than one side (cool). and the replacement with a slight asymmetry. but ca not get on to the ear. it shows only graphically by measuring with another comp with low volumes. but hey it's less "pro". same integrated card realtek is symmetric.

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?
4 months
- What is so special that you like most and least?
sound quality is still great. potato ca, ca plenty of decibels (as opposed to my sound card on my old pc: an m-audio pci on stage have to get the sound through the mixer for the correct level. so it was blah. there is the ball with the indigo). then it is super convenient, PCMCIA requires, I do not understand this connection that drops on consumer notebooks (we have not all the dosh to buy portbles pro). small problem at the connector. The mini jack is cheap. but hey we have something for nothing
- Have you tried many other models before buying it?
this is my first PCMCIA card
- How would you rate the quality / price?
I was skeptical at first, I was a little difficult to purchase, but ultimately it's still much of the ball. good report.
- With experience, you do again this choice? ...
I will keep it when I buy my next laptop (unless there have better by then for about the same price and size)

"I bought this card in relation to advice on AF.
to have a good quality recording on my laptop and I t's not but ....

-I have a HP Laptop AMD Turion 64 2gb ram 900 160dd 5400tr go outside and yes ... lol
. I had a few clicks and audio problem of slowing down in my records, the sudden I sold the card Indigo and myself bought a Toneport KB37 more complete ... I even worry .... think it's my setup (AMD..) which is the cause of those clicks / audio delays. I will sell this damned laptop and try HP's competitors (like Asus for example) but also a processor-based Intel.

UTILIZATION

Easy Install xp ok

GETTING STARTED

Good drivers rgulirement Updated, super Echo, I will continue!
I use Cubase SX with a reasonable track, Reason, Soundforge

OVERALL OPINION

I used this card for 2 years or so, it made me good and loyal service.

I well liked the dynamics and quality of the sound that emerges.
In my humble opinion, the infigo I / O is very well for those who want a card from a simple arch / output quality and no more USB PCMCIA but then, nothing is connecting / d connect every time you want to move with his laptop.

but too bad they have not Russia to a 6.5 jack lol and the plastic starts to crack is because of connections / unplug constant but mine had too much VCU.