[FelyonParticipant]

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Maybe the QU-16 suffers from the problems which could occur with some USB 2.0 interfaces connected to the UB 3.0 ports on Macbooks from 2012?

[FelyonParticipant]

Maybe a special driver from A & H could optimize the performance and lower the latency under OSX.
and maybe allow 16bit 44.1 KHz 😉

It seems it is just running with Core Audio, as there is no special driver for OSX like the ASIO drivers for Windows.
There are some good and fast USB 2.0 audio interfaces out there, but the really good ones use their own optimized drivers for Macs.

But maybe I just have to accept the fact, that the QU-16 is developed first of all as live mixer and not really suitable for DAWs.

[FelyonParticipant]

Thank you.

I´m not satisfied with the performance of the USB audio interface, the quality is awesome.
Only when I work on pure MIDI projects with virtual instruments the latency and buffer size can´t be set to settings which I´m used to.
I replaced a Presonus StudioLive 16.0.2 with the QU-16.
In Live situations running only acoustic sets, this had been a big improvement.
But in my home studio it is a big step backwards.
Maybe Firewire is still superior in terms of latency and cpu load on Macbooks.
Older projects which I run with 128 samples buffer size with the SL are starting to overload the audio engine now even at 512 samples with the QU-16.

To run my own projects in 24bit/48Khz is no problem.
The problem with the mixing project is that I got the project files to create a mix.
I´m not sure if it would spoil the quality to convert them to 24Bit/48KHz for mixing and re-convert them, when I have finished the job.

Philipp

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