[SeamusicParticipant]

Hello Andre,
While it’s only anecdotal I have a MacBook Pro 15 2010 upgraded in nearly exactly the same way as yours and I have had no problem recording 24 tracks at 96/24 using the SQ USB-B into Reaper. You can try Reaper for free for a month and after that it’s significantly less than a new laptop so before you spend money I’d recommend trying that first. You could always record at 96/24 to avoid putting SRC on the CPU while it is also trying to do a bunch of time critical write operations and then downsample to 48k files that you could import into Logic if that’s your preferred DAW to mix in. If 96/24 files are going to take up a lot of space a 1/2TB SSD is still going to be cheaper than a new laptop and assuming you don’t use the disk drive in your MBP you can swap it out for to add a second drive. On top of that if you have two drives you can record to both simultaneously in Reaper, giving you a bit of redundancy.

[SeamusicParticipant]

By default Windows configures SQ as a mono speaker system, which will then cause nearly everything (VLC, Foobar, Spotify etc.) to abort playback. To fix this go to the Sound->Playback menu, find the SQ and click Configure. From there you should be able to set it as a stereo output. Just make sure you have the latest drivers/latest SQ firmware as until 1.3.1 there was an issue with glitches on USB audio streaming on Windows.

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