I'm having a problem with mine and i'm not sure if its working the way it's suppose to, here's the scenario:
I'm running instruments into the indigo via a mackie 1202vlz mixer. specificly i'm using the (alt 3/4 outs on the mackie) these outputs are attatched to the mute buttons on the tracks of the mixer. so when I want to record my bass playing or some other instrument all I do is press the mute button of the track and that sends the signal out of the alt 3/4 outputs to the inputs of the echo indigo.
heres the BIG problem
when I press a track mute button on the 1202, I am not suppose to be able to hear any audio coming from my monitors except from that coming
from the channel that has the echo indigo coming back into the mixer on for monitoring but.... I can!!, even when I mute the track that I use for monitoring the echo on, or if you can believe this even if I unplug the output of the echo indigo I still hear audio that shouldn't be heard from the
mackie tracks that have been muted.
I know it's not the mackie mixer because it works just like it's suppose to when connected to the audiophile 2496 in my desktop.
is anybody having this experience or can anyone test this out.
thanks
who here Has An Echo Indigo series pcmcia sound Card?
mackie alt 3-4 outs
the alt output channels of your mackie are re-routed to the main output of the mixer via the 'source' section of the ctrl room channel.
if you 'mute' or output your audio to alt 3-4 on your mackie, you have two options - leaving that audio essentially 'muted' on your desk, and monitoring through Live, or re-routing that audio back through your main mix, hence monitoring through the desk and not through live - this is what you're doing, and in all actuality the more desirable choice.
to change the way this acts - push the alt 3 - 4 button on your c/r souce, and push the assign to main mix button - or just turn down your c/r source knob.
hope that helps.
if you 'mute' or output your audio to alt 3-4 on your mackie, you have two options - leaving that audio essentially 'muted' on your desk, and monitoring through Live, or re-routing that audio back through your main mix, hence monitoring through the desk and not through live - this is what you're doing, and in all actuality the more desirable choice.
to change the way this acts - push the alt 3 - 4 button on your c/r souce, and push the assign to main mix button - or just turn down your c/r source knob.
hope that helps.
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hey dubslug thanks for replying man, I know that that is how it's suppose to work but that's not the case with the echo indigo, that is exactly how it works with my desktop and the audiophile, that's why something is very weird.
its set up like this.
alt 3/4 output going to echo indigo input
echo indigo output going to channel 5/6 on mackie
bass guit going through ch-3
sampler going through ch-4
both channels 3 and 4 muted (sent to alt 3/4)
Cntrl source button for alt 3/4 is NOT pushed down.
so I should only be hearing audio that is coming in on channel 5/6 from the laptop, but instead when I turn channel 5/6 all the way down I still hear the bass/ sampler audio loud as if those channes aren't muted, so I unmute them to see how it sounds and its the same, so I mute them again no change in volume or anything.
heres super weird
so I turn down the volume all the way on the echo indigo cards output, still I hear audio.
I thought the mackie was broken but it's always worked correctly using the audiophile so I'm wondering if this is something specific to the way the echo indigos connections work, like something funny with there imput and output construction. do you have the indigo I/o or just a mackie?
its set up like this.
alt 3/4 output going to echo indigo input
echo indigo output going to channel 5/6 on mackie
bass guit going through ch-3
sampler going through ch-4
both channels 3 and 4 muted (sent to alt 3/4)
Cntrl source button for alt 3/4 is NOT pushed down.
so I should only be hearing audio that is coming in on channel 5/6 from the laptop, but instead when I turn channel 5/6 all the way down I still hear the bass/ sampler audio loud as if those channes aren't muted, so I unmute them to see how it sounds and its the same, so I mute them again no change in volume or anything.
heres super weird
so I turn down the volume all the way on the echo indigo cards output, still I hear audio.
I thought the mackie was broken but it's always worked correctly using the audiophile so I'm wondering if this is something specific to the way the echo indigos connections work, like something funny with there imput and output construction. do you have the indigo I/o or just a mackie?