I want to repurpose my audio interface as lawn mulch

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So for about 8 months, I used a used Presonus Firebox for recording. It was a little beast - great converters, excellent hardware, reliable drivers. The only problem (and the reason for replacing it) was that the mic pres were pretty noisy. So I picked up a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4. After a few weeks of using the Scarlett, I seriously want to take a hammer to it, mail the pieces back to Focusrite and demand a refund. BSOD's, pops and clicks no matter what the buffer size, it absolutely refuses to operate beyond 16-bit (even though it is advertised as providing 96 KHz/24-bit conversion) under any circumstances, random drop-outs, resource hog, won't release for multiple application use without an epic battle - regardless of DAW and/or OS settings. And don't even get me started on the drivers. They crash, fail to load. The thing won't even play nice with ASIO4All. It is an epic failure of an AI. But the mic pres are nice and quiet, great quality when I can get the AI to work for 5 minutes.

I desperately need suggestions for a stable AI with rock solid and reliable drivers. This thing is making me want to hurt small animals.
 
triquee,

Did you completely remove the Presonus drivers before installing the Focusrite drivers?

As some Windows drivers don't always completely uninstall, you sometimes need to resort to something like DriverCleaner to ensure that the unwanted driver/s are completely removed.

As a precaution, I would try completely removing the Presonus and Focusrite drivers, and then re-installing the Focusrite drivers.

Hope that helps!

Paul

Yikes! This is my 666th post. :eek:
 
PRHunt said:
triquee,

Did you completely remove the Presonus drivers before installing the Focusrite drivers?

As some Windows drivers don't always completely uninstall, you sometimes need to resort to something like DriverCleaner to ensure that the unwanted driver/s are completely removed.

As a precaution, I would try completely removing the Presonus and Focusrite drivers, and then re-installing the Focusrite drivers.

Hope that helps!

Paul

Yikes! This is my 666th post. :eek:
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There have never been Presonus drivers on this machine. I just built it less than two weeks ago. The Focusrite had the same issues on the old machine.

I have completely removed and reinstalled the Focusrite drivers a couple of times, which didn't change a thing. I checked to make sure my graphics driver bundle was free from an audio driver component (it is). I have disabled system sounds. I have disabled/enabled onboard (motherboard) sound in the device manager. I have tried running the Scarlett with or without chipset audio drivers. No difference.
 
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I have the 18i6 Scarlett...just as bad...been stable for little while now but Im scared to open mix control or plug anything midi in it...my macbookpro died and my elektron MD is in for repairs, both attached to this, both completely fine before hand...Im not saying it is it, but boy it gives me bad vibes

nice folks, great price, buggy as fuck :(
 
I'm beginning to think that maybe Focusrite just uses piss poor USB drivers. I haven't yet seen such end-user ire related to their firewire interfaces...
 
kcearl said:
I have the 18i6 Scarlett...just as bad...
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I've had mine for 5 weeks now and never had any problems with it. Buffer size at 2.0ms. Used it every single day with no clicks, no pops, no crashes, nothing. Recorded 7 tracks at once. Weird huh?

I used to have an RME Fireface UFX and the only difference I noticed was a few milliseconds less latency.
 
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