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| | Features | FireWire (IEEE 1394a) interface with 8' cableBus powered with 6-pin FireWire interfaceExternal 12VDC power supply providedHeadphone output is independent from line outputs (listen to cue mix separate from house mix)MIDI I/O
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| | Product Details | | Product Weight: | 2.4 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.06 inches | | Package Width: | 6.5 inches | | Package Height: | 4.13 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.43 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 2 reviews |
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2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Won't work with Windows Apr 22, 2009
I've spent months trying to get this to work with Vista and XP and have finally just given up. The unit worked so badly with so many problems even the Echo tech support folks thought it was broken; I sent it back to get fixed and they told me it works.
I use a Dell 1405 laptop with Vista and have tried both Home Premium and Ultimate. I created an XP partition just to see if I could get this working, using XP SP3. My DAW of choice is Sonar 8 producer edition, although I originally tried this with Sonar 6 producer edition, same results. I tried installing it on my wife's laptop, a Dell 1420 and had the same results.
So here are the issues: I've never been able to get my laptop to play a movie using any soft DVD player. Originally the machine crashed and either froze up completely or I got the BSOD. After a lot of reinstalls I was able to get it to just freeze up; the BSODs stopped. Don't know why since I didn't really change anything. A couple more installs got it to the point where movies would just move at a frame rate of 1 frame every four or five seconds with no audio at all. ITunes originally worked very badly with a lot of pops and would then crash but got to the point where it worked pretty well. That was the most successful of all the audio programs I tested.
Sonar crashed often originally then reached the point where the audio engine would just stop after a couple of minutes. After many, many uninstalls, reinstalls and a lot of tampering with every setting in the book I got it to the point where it would work but created a lot of noise and pops. Pretty worthless.
There is obviously a conflict with something in both my laptop and my wife's. I did a clean install with a separate partition for XP for the sole purpose of recording and killed every process that wasn't essential and had no software installed except Sonar 8 and the Echo drivers. No luck. I also disabled the onboard audio at the BIOS level and killed all the onboard audio at the Windows System level. No luck.
I gave this one star since this is basically a $180 paperweight. I've been tempted to sell it but I have an ethical dilemma selling something that doesn't work at all (even if Echo says it does--I've never seen it work). Echo's Tech Support simply gave up and so have I. If this were an obscure laptop with an obscure OS I could understand their inability to fix the problem but a Dell laptop with a Microsoft OS? That's their bread and butter. This was a tremendous disappointment since I had an Echo Indigo which worked flawlessly under XP. This is a great form factor (tiny) which I really need but I'm probably going to end up just throwing it away with all the other old electronic junk that accumulates over time, since that's what it is: junk. Bummer. (I have an M-Audio Fast Track Pro which works great, it's just really big as I travel a lot).
Also, the unit can be powered by a firewire cable but only if it's a six pin port, not a mini 4 pin like my Dell. The AC converter weighs almost as much as the interface itself but that's not really Echo's fault, it's Dell's.
Bottom line: If you buy one of these and it doesn't work flawlessly for you send it back immediately.
 Great soundcard Mar 11, 2009
Worked right out of the box with OS X. Good quality converts, very rugged case and sounds wonderful. Needs a headphone amp if you're using headphones. Other than that it's a good firewire card and I don't have any complaints. Can't go wrong with an echo product.
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