Has someone tested the Echo Indigo DJ PCMCIA Card?

[arar]

I will have my card tomorow, looking forward to seeing if I have a good experience with it...see it is part of an ableton bundle now....

[milka]

Hi Live users, best season Greetings and Love to everyone:)

Ordered Indigo DJ from Ableton site a few days ago, wonder how long it will take to ship to France.
Does Anyone uses it with Panter successfully in a real live situation with Live and Traktor DJ 2 ?
I am a bit worried 'cause the Echo site states only Jaguar compatability..... there is nothing mentioned there about the Panther?

My Live System:
Power Book G3/500Mhz-Pismo/384MB
Live 3
MOTU282- audio interface
FireWireHD80Gb
Evolution UC-16 MIDI controller
Tascam US 428 MIDI controller
Mac OS9.2.2 ( still in doubt to go Jaguar or Panther as the perfomance suffers with Live....)

I know my PowerBook looks quite tired for use with Live, but i am trying to squeeze every bit of it for the sake of extra CPU% performance with Live and Traktor DJ......... what is your experience with Indigo DJ on a slower Mac Laptops ?

peace-milka

[chaunceyc]

I bought a plain Indigo when they first came out end of 2002 and I loved it: Great sound, stable, good latency on my Sony Vaio. Unfortunately it started fritzing out within a couple of months--channels would drop out, volume knob got noisy. I got it replaced by Echo under warranty (they are really a pleasure to deal with). The second one lasted about a month before going the same route. I was about to cut my losses by then, but they announced the DJ Indigo back in August, which looked so perfect for my Live/Reason needs, I opted to swap in under warranty/trade up to it by paying the price differential. Got it in the mail a few weeks ago and so far so good.

I'm convinced that the Indigos were probably suffering from heat damage because it was in the slot above my Wi-Fi adapter, which runs very hot. I realize it's not such a great idea to have networking running while doing live, but I like being able to listen to streaming audio while sitting in a coffee shop. I am being very careful with this one and not having both cards in at the same time, and advise others to be careful about heat.

[milka]

Hi, chaunceyc .
Could you tell us how is your experiences so far with the new Indigo DJ, in terme of sound quality-usability-reliability-latency.
What model of Vaio laptop you use and what are the other specs of your setup with Live?
milka

I was about to cut my losses by then, but they announced the DJ Indigo back in August, which looked so perfect for my Live/Reason needs, I opted to swap in under warranty/trade up to it by paying the price differential. Got it in the mail a few weeks ago and so far so good.
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[milka]

Got my Indigo DJ from Ableton 3 weeks ago, first it worked perfectly with Live and Traktor DJ..... since a week i get crackles and distorted sounds when using iTunes or Traktor Dj,
Ableton Live is OK because i can change
the buffer size to 256 , but it is imossible to change the buffer size to anything bigger than 36ms (Core Audio) in Traktor or in Audio/Sound control panel there is NO way to lower or hogher buffer control? :(....

Does Indigo DJ works for any of you with TRaktor DJ and Panther?

I have gigs coming up using Traktor- desperately need help.
thanks in advance-milka

PowerBook-G3 "Pismo"
Panther 10.3.2
Echo Indigo DJ
Live 3
Traktor DJ

[arar]

Ive tried it on Sony, Toshiba and Mesh laptops, and its fine on all of them...extremely low noise, not too difficult to set up...it does get it very hot though.....