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INDIGO™ INDIGO™io INDIGO™dj Owner’s manual Version 2.0.1 Windows ME/2000/XP 1

Professional audio software To audio software, the Indigo hardware appears as a group of stereo wave devices. You can view the list of these devices

Virtual Outputs Most audio cards with a pair of analog outputs will appear to software as having just that, a single pair of outputs. When one appli

Console3 A “virtual control surface” application called Console3 is included with the Indigo driver. The Console allows you to control the audio play

Console Window The basic metaphor for the console interface is a digital mixing board, and it works in terms of output busses. An output bus is a st

Bus select (Indigo dj only) The bus select panel is the area in the middle right of the Console. Each bus has its own button marked with an A (for an

Analog Inputs (Indigo io only) The controls for the analog inputs are on the left side of the Console and have the label “Analog in” at the bottom.

At the top is the peak meter for this channel, labeled in decibels. Under the peak meter is the monitor pan slider; this pans the input channel betwe

Console Sessions Console settings can be saved as a console session to be reloaded later. All volume levels, pan settings, mutes and gang settings a

Console Settings Clicking the Settings button at the top of the Console shows a dialog box for altering console settings. The Settings dialog gives

Synchronize wave devices This is mainly for developers who are using tools like Visual Basic or Delphi and want the inputs and outputs to be totally

Important Safety Instructions WARNING: Listening to audio at high volumes over headphones can cause hearing damage. Please be careful to limit the v

GSIF This window allows you to set the latency of GigaStudio in terms of samples. Select the value here that provides the best tradeoff between per

Hot Keys There are a number of hot keys that can be used to control the console when it is the active window. F Fast-saves the current session L L

Listening to Indigo Your Indigo product was designed for use with high-end headphones. With the original Indigo you can hook up one set of headphone

Registration Registering your Indigo product with Echo allows us to register key information so that we may handle problems faster and inform you of

Appendix A: Multi-client audio FAQ Q: What is “Multi-client audio”? Multi-client audio is a feature that lets you use different virtual outputs on y

You should also turn off your system sounds. Most system sounds tend to be at 11 kHz or 22 kHz. Imagine that you're recording the best guitar s

Appendix B: An Introduction to Digital Recording Converting Sound into Numbers In a digital recording system, sound is represented as a series of n

combinations of zeroes and ones, so 65,535 different voltages can be digitally represented. (see figure A above). Figure B. The more bits there ar

happens). In addition to aliasing, sampling too slowly will result in reduced high frequency reproduction. Your Echo card allows you to sample sound

converting dBV levels into dBu levels is as simple as subtracting 2dB (2.21 to be exact). Signals are also occasionally represented with units of d

Limited Warranty Echo Digital Audio Corporation warrants this product, when purchased at an Authorized Echo Dealer in the United States of America or

by having electrons moving around due to heat. Even if the converters could be perfectly designed to read these levels, the low noise requirements of

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Introduction Thank you for choosing Echo Digital Audio. We think you’ll find your Echo Indigo product to be an extremely flexible, high-performance a

Installation Complete installation consists of installing the Windows driver into your system, installing the CardBus card and, if necessary, install

Hardware installation Once the driver is installed, insert your Indigo product into your laptop. Simply insert the card into any available CardBus s

Windows default audio playback device Your Indigo product will automatically be set up as the default Windows audio playback device. To confirm or c