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i use the Echo Indigo IO. it's PCMCIA. i'd previously tried one of m-audio's usb devices - the sonica theater usb. downside of that (and demonstrating what's been said about usb limitations) was that it could only input at 48KHz. the Echo Indigo IO does input and output at 24/96.

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maybe my problem was just lack of RAM then, because whenever i move *any* sort of visualization over to 2nd desktop, Live starts sputtering. my ATI eats up 128 of my 512 right off the bat. RAM for the pc i'm using (a new HP) is still expensive, though, and it isn't high in my budget, given that i ...

thanks for the tips everyone. yeah, adhmzaiusz, running Live on one pc and VJ on another, and midi-ing between them seems to be working well, so i'm sticking with that. that'll leave me the cpu breathing room for 24-bit/96KHz audio and higher res vid, which is what i want. i feel bad about troubling ...

do you have to have a really beefy machine to run Live and Arkaos together? because i thought my pc would be able to handle it, but when i switch Arkaos to full screen, it closes Live, leaving the rewire session hanging i might add, which to me suggests that Live was crashed, not closed per se ...