Re: [LAU] Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 - reliable?

Well here's the promised follow-up mail. So far, the bottom line is that it's not as reliable as my dual Delta 1010 setup. There's a lot to like about the Focusrite but things are not entirely working properly and I haven't got to the bottom of why. The biggest problem I have is that the ADAT channels go through periodswhere they exhibit digital noise, in that I get frequent clicks across all channels simultaneously. Driver, focusrite, cable or ADAT outboard? Not sure, and I'm still going through the slow process of elimination. The funny thing is that after an initial problem period it seemed stable for about a week when I left it all powered up and monitoring. I put it down to a bad cable I'd just replaced but it's just started doing it again. Secondly, the ffado drivers may or may not be solid under the hood when they're up and running (assuming the above bug isn't their fault) but on the version I'm on (2.2.1) there's a lot of shakiness around the edges. ffado-mixer is very slow to use, taking a second or so to process each command sent to the ffado-dbus-server. Various things like stopping jack also cause a whole bunch of processes just to lock up and I have to go around manually killing manually killing ffado-dbus-server, ffado-mixer, jackd and qjackctl. If I switch the Focusrite off then, again, I have clean up work to do before things are usable again. So the field report so far is that it's a partial success in that I've managed to record things with it on all channels, and the ffado-mixer appears to be able to control everything it needs to but at other times it's letting me down and there are a fair few issues I'm hitting that will need to be resolved before I can trust it to real work. bjb On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 07:22:33PM +0000, Ben Bell wrote: