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Echo Indigo I/O

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Notebook pro audio recording has never sounded so good.

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Notebook pro audio recording has never sounded so good, or been this convenient and affordable. Indigo IO offers one stereo 1/8 inch analog input and output on a Type II Cardbus card powered by your notebook computer. It combines this with 24-bit/96kHz converters for the quality you deserve. Also included is a 6 foot audio cable for RCA or 1/4 inch connections.

A unique feature of the Indigo IO is the use of "virtual" outputs. Indigo IO appears to software as if it has eight separate outputs, which are digitally mixed down to the physical outputs using Indigo IO's "console" software and its on-board DSP. This makes Indigo IO compatible with all popular multi-track software. And, with Echo's "multi-client" drivers, more than one application (such as an editor and a software synth) can be playing back through Indigo IO at the same time.

Hardware Features:

  • 1 stereo 1/8" analog input*
  • 1 stereo 1/8" analog output*
  • Supports full duplex 2 channel in, 2 channel out operation
  • High quality headphone amp
  • Analog volume control knob for output
  • Supports true 24 bit, 96 kHz audio
  • 100 MHz 24 bit Motorola DSP
  • Powered by your notebook computer
  • Includes 6 foot adapter cable for RCA and 1/4" connections
  • Type II Cardbus slot required

Software Features:

  • Software console for monitoring, metering, and setting levels
  • Built-in digital mixer provides near-zero latency monitoring
  • Supports Windows Me/2000/XP and Macintosh OS X
  • Supports all Pro Audio software (WDM Kernel Streaming, ASIO, GSIF, and CoreAudio)
  • 8 "Virtual Outputs" - run multiple applications at the same time
  • Low-latency drivers
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Echo Indigo I/O Reviews

8/10

Indigo Echo I/O

— Elliot Davidson May 31, 2006

In a nutshell every laptop owner half serious about music needs one!!

I use FL Studio for my music creation and this little baby takes all the latency away and allows me to play away on my USB master keyboard using the sound modules inbuilt in FL Studio which are excellent by the way plus any VST virtual synths you have installed. The sound is fantastic and for the money it's hard to look elsewhere. There are some draw backs which I will cover (and why it only gets an 8/10)

First of all during installation remember to read the instructions. If you plug her in first then your best installing over again so load the software first, turn off, plug her in & reboot. XP WILL ask for drivers from disk so leave CD in there and you will find it will install drivers after prompt. That done just plug in to your sound source to the mini jack facing away from laptop if your Card bus slot is on the left hand side of your laptop, otherwise it's the reverse.

INPUT/OUTPUT: All you get is 1 mini jack 1/8" input and 1 1/8" output so multiple sound sources can not be recorded live to Hard disk without using a mixer before hand. Unless you do what i do which is record a vocal or guitar etc. live one track at a time anyway and this is what this card is about, it turns your laptop into a porta-studio as long as you have the software it's aiming for the home studio 1 or 2 man stuff anyway right Echo?
The other thing to note is that there is no phantom sound or pre amp here but I recorded my vocal samples dry from my Mic and normalized them with Sonic Foundry and ran them through FL Studio with lush chorus & reverb which did the trick nicely. However i would normally pre-amp vocals for other artists so they can here what their doing in a monitor and try out effects etc which again is possible.

Anyway you get a great sound without feedback, glitches and background hiss out of the 1/8" jack so plug it into a sound system that appreciates the range it offers which is a hefty true 24 bit, 96 kHz audio.
The sample rates were great to at 44100 although it easily handled 48200 rates and higher. The built in low latency drivers give you play back at 13ms while you are playing your USN keyboard live AND you can lower this to 1ms as long as you haven’t got loads of other VST virtual modules running along THIS IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE stuff ECHO DIGITAL AUDIO fair play!
UPSIDES: excellent latency reduction. Great sound
DOWNSIDES: some computer love puffing (digital interference) when modifying or selecting virtual synths with many other synths and samples running. When mastering however there were no glitches whatsoever
Tested using: XP, 3yr old laptop with, 700Mb, 2 gig processor running FL Studio 5 & Sonic Foundry 6. M-Audio 61ES (usb 2.0)

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