Question about Echo Indigo IO Sound Card

Output activity showing but NO SOUND!

OP: Windows Vista Home Premium--Up to date I purchased the indigo io for taking my home studio with me to college after reading rave reviews. My Indigo I/O soundcards seem to be working when looking at it. the blue LED is lit, windows recognizes it, and there is output activity, BUT NO SOUND! on itunes, windows media player, games, sonar 6, cubasesx3. I installed the card with the 7.1 and updated to 7.2 for vista but neither works. I check to make sure the indigo output is selected as default under windows. I used both sony mdr-v600 headphones, and a harmon/kardon speaker system which both work 100% fine when connected to the internal soundcard but NOT with the IO! THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING! I contacted echoaudio.com but their answers were so vague but they DID say this was a common problem. did anyone else experience this? can someone PLEEEEEEASE help me out? Also, I am using a duel system express card to pcmcia adapater both with the latest drivers and my system rarely reads both devices and usually either rejects both the adapter and card when the card is inserted or reboots. Sometimes, it reads flawlessly; What's up with that? Thankyou for your help.

Mark Ing Aug 02, 2007

I'm not ripping, or pirating in any way. i am using this soundcard for recording music, however i can't even get any playback out of it.
Mark Ing Aug 04, 2007

hmm...i actually only see 1/2 audio inputs but it WORKS, however the sound is very distorted when recording. especially when playing back audio when recording on sonar. the sound also distorts once in a while during playback on windows media player.
thanks.

2 Answers

Anonymous

Virtual outputs? in Echo console: The phones output is Analog 1-2 and the line output is Analog 3-4. In the Echo console, you can choose between the Analog 1-2 bus and the Analog 3-4 bus in the upper right hand corner. In the Analog 1-2 bus make sure you have virtual output 3-4 muted. In the Analog 3-4 bus make sure you have the virtual output 1-2 muted. From within your audio application you can now assign your headphones output and your house (line) output. Hope this is some help.

Posted on Aug 02, 2007

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Windows Vista Home Premium--Up to date This may be the problem. Vista is very much AntiPiracy. If you are ripping or such, Vista will give you grief.

Posted on Aug 02, 2007

Anonymous Aug 02, 2007

Virtual outputs?
in Echo console:

The phones output is Analog 1-2 and the line output is Analog 3-4. In the Echo console, you can choose between the Analog 1-2 bus and the Analog 3-4 bus in the upper right hand corner. In the Analog 1-2 bus make sure you have virtual output 3-4 muted. In the Analog 3-4 bus make sure you have the virtual output 1-2 muted. From within your audio application you can now assign your headphones output and your house (line) output.

Hope this is some help.