peisrael
Forgot to mention that I disabled the wireless internet in at attempt to make the crackling go away. Now, with the SIIG card, I have no crackling even with wireless enabled. Can someone explain to me why the onboard TI adapter, which is a combined USB/Firewire/Cardbus adapter, seemed to cause the crackling but when I put in a cardbus card for firewire that obviously runs back through the onboard combo TI adapter the crackling is gone??

 
THANK YOU!!!!! I got a TI chip FW, and  I was about to reinstall everything in a desperate attempt to solve this, now I don't have to!
 
 

I have the Ultralite and I occasionally get some crackles or a ring mod type of distortion. It's pretty severe. Sometimes if I hit stop and start it's gone other times. I hit P (Preferences and Enter to close Preferences and it's gone. Other times I've opened the asio panel and closed it or actually change the buffer settings slightly.
 
 In more extreme cases you have to close Platinum. There's some new firmware and software, check it out. The noise problem has gotten better over the last several months, but still pops up sometimes. The techs seem clueless about PC's and Platinum and are not much help. Still the box is jam packed with nice features.
 
To the OP are your crackles constant or just sometimes?

My advice, because I have a mk 3 Ultralite, is not use Firewire...it's an obsolete standard, and is the reason your having troubles in my opinion...in fact I don't think I've ever run mine via Firewire.
 
Ben

I was thinking between MOTU and RME to upgrade from Focusrite  Scarlett. But reading issues like these is making it easier to pick RME over MOTU.

RishiS
I was thinking between MOTU and RME to upgrade from Focusrite  Scarlett. But reading issues like these is making it easier to pick RME over MOTU.

we just had some issues resolved with the latest MOTU AVB (now it does connect reliably!) - it already had superb IO, routing and mix options, and extendability before ... I was considering RME first myself, but it looks like I had made the right choice with the AVB stuff (boy, this works awesome when you can simply recall a rather complex routing from the last drum tracking session and all is right there, up to custom IO labels inside your DAW)

No doubt the AVB is a truly amazing box. The mixer and IO stuff is fantastic. Even though the weird ring mod noise rarely shows up anymore, I'm still displeased that I get some occasional isolated pops every once and a while. Maybe 1 pop every 30 to 120 min. If that doesn't bug you, get it.
 
I've spent lots of time optimizing my computer and use is with USB nor firewire. Still no solution on the little pops.

gmp
No doubt the AVB is a truly amazing box. The mixer and IO stuff is fantastic. Even though the weird ring mod noise rarely shows up anymore, I'm still displeased that I get some occasional isolated pops every once and a while. Maybe 1 pop every 30 to 120 min. If that doesn't bug you, get it.
 
I've spent lots of time optimizing my computer and use is with USB nor firewire. Still no solution on the little pops.

Can't observe anything like that here and I have been tracking for hours in the past few days. I might get a crackle if I access it too early the first time after I booted everything ... it takes a few seconds to be properly seen by win10, but if I remember to be patient, it's fine ...

gmp
No doubt the AVB is a truly amazing box. The mixer and IO stuff is fantastic. Even though the weird ring mod noise rarely shows up anymore, I'm still displeased that I get some occasional isolated pops every once and a while. Maybe 1 pop every 30 to 120 min. If that doesn't bug you, get it.
 
I've spent lots of time optimizing my computer and use is with USB nor firewire. Still no solution on the little pops.

I have a similar issue with my 1st generation Scarlett.Which is one of the reasons I want to move away from Focusrite besides ofcourse the main reason being latency, not getting below 10msec.

RishiS

gmp
No doubt the AVB is a truly amazing box. The mixer and IO stuff is fantastic. Even though the weird ring mod noise rarely shows up anymore, I'm still displeased that I get some occasional isolated pops every once and a while. Maybe 1 pop every 30 to 120 min. If that doesn't bug you, get it.
 
I've spent lots of time optimizing my computer and use is with USB nor firewire. Still no solution on the little pops.

I have a similar issue with my 1st generation Scarlett.Which is one of the reasons I want to move away from Focusrite besides ofcourse the main reason being latency, not getting below 10msec.

have you guys ever assessed whether these things appear on a regular basis (fixed time interval, certain times only), just thinking out loud but computers and equipment dont glitch for the fun of it, and issues that come on a "regular" basis often relate to something running in the background ...

Rob[atSound-Rehab]

RishiS

gmp
No doubt the AVB is a truly amazing box. The mixer and IO stuff is fantastic. Even though the weird ring mod noise rarely shows up anymore, I'm still displeased that I get some occasional isolated pops every once and a while. Maybe 1 pop every 30 to 120 min. If that doesn't bug you, get it.
 
I've spent lots of time optimizing my computer and use is with USB nor firewire. Still no solution on the little pops.

I have a similar issue with my 1st generation Scarlett.Which is one of the reasons I want to move away from Focusrite besides ofcourse the main reason being latency, not getting below 10msec.

have you guys ever assessed whether these things appear on a regular basis (fixed time interval, certain times only), just thinking out loud but computers and equipment dont glitch for the fun of it, and issues that come on a "regular" basis often relate to something running in the background ...

The pops seem to happen for no apparent reason. It's always 1 pop. I didn't get this with my Layla 24 1.5 years ago on my Win 7 computer. This one is a Jim Roseberry computer.
 
This has happened with Win 8.1 and Win 10 and all versions of Plat. A long time ago I tried unplugging my wired network cable, maybe I should try that again. I wish there was a way to quickly and easily disconnect the internet and reconnect it without rebooting.