Vegas/Echo Indigo I-O/Service pack 2

dwhopson wrote on 9/9/2004, 11:02 PM
Hi,

I hope someone can help me. I'm about to go back to analog tape as my recording medium.

I purchased vegas about a month ago. I installed it on a clean install of Windows XP. I use an Echo Indigo I/O card for recording and monitoring.

After my initial install of vegas 5, I was able to record/playback with this combination....without problems.

Recently, I had to reformat my drive and reinstall windows and vegas. In the process I downloaded Service pack 2. Now, when I attempt to start Vegas with the Indigo card installed.....it won't start and I get a generic Microsoft error message. If I take the Indigo card out of the pcmcia slot, Vegas starts without a problem (except that I don't have a decent I/O card to work with).

I've downloaded the latest driver from Echo for the Indigo card (which was the same as what shipped) and the latest update of Vegas 5 (5.0b).

Is there a possible problem with the .net passport that vegas sets up when you initially install vegas?

Any ideas?

Compaq presario 2195us
AMD XP2500+ mobile
512 meg ram
40 gig internal hd
30 gig firewire external hd
Echo Indigo I/O pcmcia card
Windows XP, sp2

Thanks,
DWH

Comments

MrPhil wrote on 9/10/2004, 1:53 AM
the conclusion must be that the problem lies within Service pack 2, as it is the only difference done before/after.
Former user wrote on 9/10/2004, 7:02 AM
DW,

SP2 has no immediate benefit to recording in any way. Due to the large amount of changes that it makes to the OS - there have been many reports of problems with many types of software.It's difficult to test something this large against every possible app/driver out there.

Easiest fix (albeit a bit time consuming) would be to, simply reformat and install XP fresh and leave it at that. Unless you have some reason to add a service pack into the mix (security etc).

I have decided to leave all my machines (4 + a laptop) at SP1a as I have great stability and no conflicts with anything that I use. Getting my work done is the key...really can't be bothered with a problematic service pack.

You can get SP1a at:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp1/default.mspx

Cheers,

VP

dwhopson wrote on 9/10/2004, 9:49 AM
Well, I figured since I was installing a clean install of windows I should go with the most up to date stuff. So much for technology.

After going back and looking at another machine with SP2....I noticed that my MiaMidi card isn't showing up in vegas 5 either (but atleast Vegas will start)......so, I'm sort of thinking this must be an SP2 issue.

I also noticed CD architect doesn't show Echo products as viable I/O options...but maybe this only works through generic audio drivers......I can't remember.

Anyway...this is sllightly annoying!

Thanks,
DWH
dwhopson wrote on 9/10/2004, 6:18 PM
Ok.....

I took service pack 2 off.....and now all my Sony apps have their full audio function again with the Indigo I/O card. Yeah!!!

Now if someone could just tell me what the hell's wrong with my Echo MiaMidi card......

;-)

planders wrote on 9/11/2004, 9:17 AM
This is weird. I've got a Layla24 on one computer, a MiaMIDI on another, and an Indigo IO on my laptop. All three machines are running SP2. And I haven't seen so much as a hiccup with Vegas or any other apps.
dwhopson wrote on 9/11/2004, 3:05 PM
Planders,

On my MiaMidi, I'm having problems with the SPDIF ports. Whenever I connect the SPDIF I/O to a device, it doesn't work at all. All I get on the Digital Input meter is a clipped signal once everything is powered on. I've tried two different DAT machines and an Apogee PSX100 digital converter (which won't work at all). And yes, I've switched the clock as necessary

I have noticed that the digital I/O will sporadically work when one or the other of the spdif cables is disconnected...but can't be regularly repeated to get a working desired result.

I have tried two different miamidi cards.....(I'm in the process of building two workstations). On the first card the digital I/O won't work at all...not even sporadically. The second card will only work sporadically. Analog seems to operate ok on both cards.....from the little I've been able to work with the I/O.

What I need to be able to do is run my analog signal from my mixer through my digital converter and then into the MiaMidi via SPDIF in. I would also like to be able playback from my sound apps through miamidi's spdif out and my digital to analog converter. This should not be a problem if the MiaMidi card is truely fully duplex....even if it wasn't full duplex it should still work when using only either the in or out individually.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Could it be a driver conflict with Service Pack 2? Do I need to disable something on my motherboard?

AMD XP2500+
Gigagbyte 7VT600-1394 mb
VIA KT600 chipset
1 gig ram
40 gig and 80 gig hard drives
Windows XP SP2

Thanks for your input!
dwh
SonyEPM wrote on 9/13/2004, 12:37 PM
We have notified Echo engineering about this, and I'd expect a fix from them shortly via a driver update at from www.echoaudio.com