Is Indigo the most reliable card for Live live ?

[rikhyray]

mine stopped working after about 3 months, it used to crash my laptop as soon as it was plugged in.

I returned it at the start of December to the vendor, and am still waiting for it to be either repaired or replaced

Your vendor might be lazy ass- probably didnt bother to contact Echo.
I paniced that my Indigo was gone, called local distributor, once he heard what the problem was, sent me PDF how to fix it, of course they could repair it too but it took me less then a minute to fix it myself.
There was a bunch sold some months ago that were missing insulation strip, typical symptom-crashing, freezing the computer. Sometimes the card would work for months sometimes the problem would show up immediately. All that has to be done is to slide in a tiny piece of tape.
I can send you that PDF- just go get your Indigo and try it, though after phone conversation I wanted to get it fixed by them I couldnt resist at least trying, a monkey could do it, real easy.

Hi Could you please send me a copy copy of the PDF? I have two cards that are having this problem and I haven't sent them in yet.

My email is:

[email protected]

Thanks!!

Matt

Please confirm that you got the PDF, sent it just now
RR

[tz41]

whenever i use the indigo card with my alienware laptop i get a ton of hum which i'm thinking is probably interference from the laptop -- is there any way around this or am i doomed to either switch laptops or buy a breakout box?

-tal

[wilxon]

whenever i use the indigo card with my alienware laptop i get a ton of hum which i'm thinking is probably interference from the laptop -- is there any way around this or am i doomed to either switch laptops or buy a breakout box?

-tal

sounds to me like either a default card or default computer.
You shouldnt get a hum, hums usually signal that there is a bad earth loop of some sort.

[Nokatus]

I have been very, very happy with my Indigo. On one occasion (a quite large-scale installation/drama marathon) I used it live for 24 hours straight with a big Live set. I could trust it easily, no problems at all. I literally haven't removed it from my Thinkpad's PC Card slot more than two or three times in, mmmh, something like two and a half years.

In addition to the laptop itself, I have come to consider it as the most trustworthy piece of audio electronics I own.

Edit: Not to appear too blindly optimistic, I know that realistically at some point this system, as any, WILL fail. It might not do it in years, but after all, such tends to be the nature of all complex technology ... Always keep your backups ready and so on.

[krikor]

Please echo take a look at this forum and make an expresscard3/4 version!!!

[wilxon]

Please echo take a look at this forum and make an expresscard3/4 version!!!

and emu, you need to do the same.

[jahnlay]

I love my echo indigo. The hum is from a ground loop, get a ground loop isolator from your local audio supply store.

[krikor]

i just got an answer from Echo:

Cool, thanks for the heads up. We are looking into an ExpressCard version, but it is a long ways away at best. Like I said, the AudioFire2 should be a very cool alternative. It will be small and have 2 inputs, 2 outputs plus a separate headphone output.

krikor kouchian wrote:
Hi,

thanks for your answer, i'm really sad to hear that though
take a look there:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 312#243312

best
K

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Cheers.