![]() Of course this requires a second set of speakers for the on board audio. Most people in your situation, only one computer, will use their PC audio via the on board sound card and run just their DAW through the audio interface and monitors. The audio buffer setting are the key here and those in my case are set in Mix Control. I don't have any issues with my set up but as I said, I have no other audio device available so Windows seems happy to use my Scarlett. I think that the Scarlett is a device made for working with Audio inside professional software and was never intended to be used for PC chores. Well you are doing lots of stuff I avoid with my DAW. Are USB audio interfaces more easily interrupted than PCI cards? Are they not as capable of handling multitasking? I've never had dropouts listening to music until today, with the Scarlett. It's very common for me to be playing a demanding game, ripping a CD, and listening to music all at the same time, with no problems. Note that I am not trying to use Sonar I'm simply trying to play music in the background (using foobar2000) like I've done for years with PCI cards. I didn't notice anything hogging the CPU, besides the normal games, programming apps, etc. I can't disconnect from the Internet because I work from home, and am always online. Would disabling a PCI card or two via Device Manager be worth testing, or is it not as effective as physically removing the PCI cards? I don't see any video card audio drivers enabled in the Device Manager. And since I listen to music all day, it would be a pain to yank the PCI cards out, listen to the Scarlett until I hear drop-outs, and then put the PCI card(s) back in. Thanks for the response! I actually have 3 audio cards connected to the PC at the moment: 1) ASUS Xonar DX (PCI card) 2) M-Audio Delta-44 (PCI card) 3) Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 (USB) I haven't removed the PCI cards yet because I don't trust the Scarlett to handle all my audio needs. Question, did you remove the Delta from your MOBO? I found you can't have a PCI card installed and use a USB audio interface together. Dropouts are almost always caused by your computer multi tasking. Video card audio drivers are known to cause problems. Open the task manager and keep it open while you listen to playback. Windows can be updating and all sorts of stuff. Try disconnecting from the internet if you haven't already done so. I use it for everything and I often have multiple programs open. I've never had this problem with my Scarlett. This sometimes caused issues if you have Sonar open and tried to play in other software. Those settings don't effect playback from Media player or movies, The drivers will automatically switch to what ever the file playing was set for. You could try a higher setting but this should not have any effect on playing music outside Sonar. You system looks like it should handle lower buffer settings, Mine will produce drop outs if I lower my buffers too far. ![]() And finally, are there ways of improving the performance and stability of the Scarlett (or any USB audio interface) by somehow increasing the power to it? For example, should I connect it to a powered USB hub, which is then connected to the PC's USB2 port? Thanks a bunch! It's not a big deal to switch over to ASIO, but I'm wondering if there are ASIO-specific troubleshooting steps I should be taking (to deal with the dropouts). Normally I use WDM with my Delta 44 PCI card. It appears that the 2nd gen Scarlett 2i4 only has one driver, and that's the ASIO driver I'm using: ![]() What else can I try as far as finding and eliminating the cause of the dropouts (USB interruptions)? The Scarlett's current ASIO settings are: 44.1 hHz sample rate with 128 buffer size. ![]() I have also confirmed that the USB port is indeed 2.0 (by using a USB port viewing tool). That may have helped, as the interruptions as less frequent, but they still happen. I have disabled USB power saving (in both the device manager and power management) as suggested in another thread. Playback dropouts like this never happen with my PCI sound cards, so I suspect it might be a USB (or Scarlett) issue. It's distracting and annoying, and makes me question whether the Scarlett can handle what I'd like it to do with Sonar, which is: multi-track audio recording, playback, and MIDI at the same time. Every few minutes, the sound will cut out for a fraction of a second and then resume. I am currently having dropouts while listening to music. I haven't used it much with Sonar yet, but have been listening to music on it as a test. I recently got a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 gen2 (USB audio interface). Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 (USB audio interface) - Dropouts, ASIO, and other questions
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