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2017/02/11 19:40:41
RSMCGUITAR
New Beta available for 1st gen scarletts

Focusrite USB2 Drivers 4.26.0

http://beta.focusrite.com/ 
2017/02/12 12:08:48
Cactus Music
Looking on that page I found a few updates for Mix Control for my 6i6. 1st gen
I'm currently running 1.8.128.0 which seems fine. it's dated 2010. 
On the beta site there is a 3.2.2 which say's for USB 2.0 devices only. Dated 08/07/2015
Then the newest 1.9b12 which is a firmware update and looks scary. 03/07/2016 
 
Because I have no issues I'm not sure about the firmware update. But I will try the Mix Control update as that can easily be rolled back. Only item of interest is they are mumbling something about the buffer settings. I don't like the currant system which uses the Ms, as in I set it to 10ms and get a 256 buffer. 
 
Any 6i6 1st gen users try the firmware update yet? 
2017/02/12 17:39:20
riojazz
Thanks for letting us know.  I have a 1st gen 6i6, 8i8 (unused) and 18i20. 
 
Background if it helps:  there are three things involved: the device driver, the USB driver, and the MixControl software.  For anyone interested, the MixControl for 2nd gen will not run on a 1st gen device. 
 
I have experimented with Focusrite beta drivers before, to try to eliminate clicks and pops.  I still have a click at the start of playback, which I attribute to using 24 bit recording in SONAR and 16-bit elsewhere.  I got into a situation where the beta driver made things worse, and Support helped me to roll back.  They were excellent and fast, but the rollback wasn't one step; several steps had to be followed including Device Manager.
2017/02/14 22:40:44
Mesh
RSMCGUITAR
New Beta available for 1st gen scarletts

Focusrite USB2 Drivers 4.26.0

http://beta.focusrite.com/ 


How's this Beta been working for you so far? 
2017/02/14 22:47:46
RSMCGUITAR
I sometimes have a issue where Windows audio cuts out and I have to reset the device by right clicking the volume icon in the system tray and using the properties dialog. Then again that was happening with the previous beta
2017/02/15 08:30:24
Mesh
I installed it last evening, but didn't get a chance to test anything out......will report back once I do. The only 2 issues I had with the previous (official) release was:
 
1) Sonar's playback engine would randomly stop.....all I had to do was press the spacebar and it would work
2) I would sometimes get random Sonar.exe has stopped working and Sonar had to be restarted (didn't happen very often though). I just unplug/replug the USB on the 2i4 and all was well.
 
Other than that, it was fine.....(of course, none of this happened when I had Win8 & Win8.1) 
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