Like I said before, the thing works great at 48k, and I've been meaning to just start working in 48k again anyway so I can use more soft synths and plugins. My question is what is making the crackling at 96k? Is it clock jitter or something else? My friends Macbook has 8gb of RAM whereas mine is only at 4gb, would this make a difference? I'm not experiencing xruns so I don't know why it would? Is there some big difference in USB ports I've never known about (And yes, I've been using it off of USB 2.0 ports, so don't even ask) that the ones on the Mac would run at a higher sample rate than the ones on my Thinkpad? Playback is fine, no crackling, all ins and outs are still recognized, so I am in the clear as far as functionality. After alot of work I still haven't been able to get that stuff working, but last night I got frustrated and tried running Jack at 48k, and voila! It works. products/ and there went 3 days of my life trying to recompile ALSA with these guys' patches. Now I'm thinking this has something to do with the driver, so I start looking around online for people who have a similar issue. The next day I go over to a friend's house who has a Macbook, and we boot into his DAW. "Just get back to us with what Focusrite says," the store guy replies. "I think this unit is defective." I send a hurried e-mail to Focusrite. I send a hurried e-mail to the mailorder store. I do all the usual troubleshooting, try different USB ports, try different cables, try different buffer sizes, everything, but still the crackling persists. What do you know? The same clicking as before! I start to panic, wondering why this thing isn't working. After I assume I complete a factory reset, I boot back into Linux and try it again. I spend a whole evening getting Windows running in Virtualbox and use the Mixcontrol software Focusrite provides to attempt to update the Firmware. Maybe the firmware on the unit is bad, or it needs to be reset. I plug the 2i2 back into the computer, and restart Jack. The same little crackling, clicking kind of noises start to appear. I go to try and play some more music, this time from Youtube and song files in Banshee. "Was that there all this time?" I ask myself. Jack has no problems starting at my settings I run Catia and ALL 18 ins and 20 outs are recognized! So when I go to play a few songs I've done in Ardour 3, I notice a faint "clicking" on the playback. I plug it in, type "lsusb" in the terminal, and what do you know? It lists Novation EMS. This thing is advertised as class-compliant, as was the 2i2, so I figure this should be a piece of cake, just plug it in, and it will be the holy phrase of end-userdom: "It just works." But 2 inputs is a little limiting so I decide to go all out and get the "flagship" model of the series: the 18i20. Obviously I'm not running a pro studio or anything, but I've had a good bit of gear over the years, and I have been really impressed with the quality of make and most importantly SOUND that Focusrite has offered. Been doing alot of tracks at 96k, buffer size set to 256, and no xruns on my Thinkpad. So, I've had the 2i2 ever since it first came out, and have had nothing but good times with that little guy. Hi guys, I don't post on here very much but I just got a new Focusrite unit and I thought I would share my thoughts and also ask a few questions if anybody who is a bit more technically knowledgable than me can answer them.
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