Runs 58 instances of 16 band multi-comp :O (OK this one I did just for a laugh because it's clearly gonna fall on it's arse) Runs 64 instances of 16 band samples - 3.81ms round-trip latency Runs 67 instances of 16 band samples - 4.580ms round-trip latency I did a few here to illustrate both the improvement on 32 samples, 64 samples being closer to the profire's lowest setting, and the frankly surprising 16 samples option which now samples -7.892ms round-trip latency Scarlett 18i20 (1st gen driver Ver samples - 9.206ms round-trip latency Profire samples - 6.304ms round-trip latency PC is an i7 930 overclocked to 3.8GHz, 12GB RAM, SSD system drive and normal 7200rpm project drives. Just out of interest I tried some benchmark settings with the DAWbench 2014 Reaxcomp Extended test on Cubase 8 圆4. Deleting them and reinstalling seemed to fix everything as expected. I also managed to totally brick it at one point and get no audio at all, but I think that was just me messing with drivers. It was also a bit of a dick to install on Windows 10 because since Microsoft knows best it kept reverting the drivers back to 2.5 gen1 automatically, eventually got it to understand it was a different device. It does still however allow you to open the small configuration options (buffer and sample rate settings). Sadly even my ADK laptop hates firewire so it's useless for recording on the move :(Īnyway the driver DOES kind of work to some extent - but as Zydraka suspected neither the Gen1 Mix Control software or the Focusrite Control software for the Gen2 models recognizes the hardware as being plugged in, so the routing element is currently effectively useless - that said the default routing seems alright for the minute. Typical! The sad news is on the gen1 drivers the Profire still absolutely blows it out of the water on benchmark tests for latency and stability - unsurprising since it's firewire going through a desktop TI chipset. Yeah I thought I'd best report back now the 18i20 has arrived and I've tried it - Giant post incoming įirstly, my Profire 2626 on it's ancient unsupported drivers started working flawlessly after a random windows update once I'd dropped a load of money on a 1st gen Scarlett 18i20.

Focusrite solo gen 2 driver