My Saffire 24 is getting me nuts!!

[Scottxx]

Help me please cause I'm getting mad!

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bits, AMD Phenom II x6 1055t, 4 GB Ripjaws. Everthing working ok in the system. Tried dpclat.exe and the results are more than excelent, tried the legacy firewire drivers that Focusrite recommends, but the same. Tried the latest beta 2.3b Mix control drivers and no improvement.
I own an ASUS Formula IV matherboard and the onboard sound is disabled at bios and at windows. The chipset for the firewire is the VIA VT6315N.

Can't get less than 512 samples. If I downgrade to 384 there are lots of crackle and rubish sound. This is no great for live tracking. This is not right when my cpu with 8 tracks and like 5 or 6 plugins on each channel shows at max %6 CPU use in Reaper.

Please help me. Just readed all system and tips on the web.
Are you sure that may be the firewire chipset? Which is the newest and better one that I can buy if there is not another solution. Everyone speaks about TI (Texas Instruments), but I had read in a place that the VIA VT6306 and VT6308 and one of the best chipsets for the Saffire.

I need a solution please,
drop me some lines if you have a solution.

Thank you all.

 

[TheDriller]

Try disabling the CD/DVD drive.

One of the DVD drives in my desktop machine plays hell with the Saffire drivers.

 

[Scott Horner]

Close out of your DAW and open Saffire MixControl. In the bottom right area, click "Settings" and change the firewire driver latency to short. You should be able to select down to 64 samples.

 

[Scottxx]

I will try disabling my DVD, The Driller. Thank you.

Yes, Scott. Of course I have tried it! I'm at short but anywhere below 512 starts to crackle!

 

[locus_coeruleus]

Get a pci firewire card with a Texas Instruments chipset. Don't use onboard FW. Legacy drivers should not be used since they have support for Windows 7.

 

[Scottxx]

If there isn't another solution I will buy PCI express TI card. PCI express over PCI isn't it ? More bandwith and better compatibility cause its modern than PCI.

THank you.

 

[locus_coeruleus]

Not sure about that, but I think they recommend some on their site. I have always had a PCI one because it was cheaper here. Check the pdf on this article: http://www.focusrite.com/answerbase/en/article.php?id=1057

 

[DanLights]

Did your Saffire actually offer to buy you some peanuts? That's oddly kind of him

P.S. you could say "driving" or "making" me nuts, but "getting me nuts" actually means he's buying you some nuts, just being an asshole from time to time

 

[Scottxx]

Ostia tío, de vez en cuando se me escapa algunas cosas del inglés pero me hago entender creo.
Ich will spreche ein bischen Deutsch auch.

 

[Scottxx]

I bought a new firewire card with the TSB43AB22A chip. So I will tell you later If I could get better performance than my VT6315N and VT6307 chips.

 

[AgentX]

I bought a new firewire card with the TSB43AB22A chip. So I will tell you later If I could get better performance than my VT6315N and VT6307 chips.

Please keep us updated as I have exactly the same problem with my setup, 90% of the time I don't even use my Saffire 24 and resort back to my UX2!