#SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL TUTORIAL MAC OS X#
#SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL TUTORIAL DRIVERS#
#SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL TUTORIAL DRIVER#
#SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL TUTORIAL PRO#
#SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL TUTORIAL SOFTWARE#

What I can't hear is my voice through the headphones as I record. As a test, I laid down a vocal track that I hear during playback through the headphones. I can hear the track (RealTrack) through the headphones. While I think I'm going to like it, there is some weird with headphone connection.

#SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL TUTORIAL PRO#

Potentiometer knobs are made of plastic and they're a little bit loose.I recently switched my Presonus Audio Interface with with Focusrite Saffire Pro 24. Of course you can control outputs by using the MixControl. It's simple and easy to use, but it could have a mains out dim or mute button somewhere. In this area the Saffire PRO 14 is a standard audio interface. Those values were measured by a friend of mine, he used a Texas Instruments Firewire chip onboard an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe mainboard and an AMD Phenom X4 CPU.

#SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL TUTORIAL DRIVER#

Driver performance makes it usable at larger ASIO buffer setting of 64 samples with resulting RTL of 5.396ms (238 samples). The lowest round trip latency of the PRO 14 under Windows 7 at ASIO buffer set to 32 samples (lowest possible value) is 3.741ms at 44.1kHz (165 samples), which is an awesome result.

#SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL TUTORIAL MAC OS X#

Buffer sizeįocusrite Saffire PRO 14 latency measurement results and DAW report values, Mac OS X 10.7.4, Reaper 4.261, Cubase Elements 6.06, Firmware version 1718, FW-Driver: 4.5, MixControl version 3.0 Round trip latency, driver performance (Windows 7) You can choose between Short, Medium, Long and Very long buffer settings. Safety buffers can be adjusted through the MixControl app. Latency raises by 2 samples when using custom mixes via MixControl (you can redirect DAW outputs to physical outputs).

#SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL TUTORIAL DRIVERS#

Drivers are reliable and their low latency performance is fantastic. There's no latency drift - it's stable no matter what. With the buffer set to 128 samples at the same driver latency mode, the overall latency raises to 10.158ms (448 samples).

Measured round trip latency goes down to 5.011ms (221 samples 44.1kHz) at Core Audio buffer size of 14 samples and firewire driver latency set to Short. Round trip latency, driver performance (Mac OS X Lion, Intel Core i5-2410M) Fortunately the PRO 14 has other outputs which work fine. IMHO it does sound a bit different especially on headphones, giving an impression of more saturated and fuller low end, and, what's worse, it also affects double and quad tracking guitars resulting in a certain weird quality in recorded material (phase issues?). In theory this shouldn't make a difference as the sound is a wave and it doesn't matter to human ear if it's compression or decompression, because both are perceivable. There's a 180 degree phase shift on the phones out that the Focusrite support confirmed to me in a reply to my inquiry. Note that the Mac mini also uses a power plug without the earth pin. The problem never appeared when the PRO was powered through the included external power supply. I noticed a small problem when the unit was powered via Firewire bus - occasional noise appeared in the guitar signal chain and it seemed to have some connection with what was going on with Mac mini that the Saffire was connected to. Saffire PRO 24 vs Saffire PRO 14, information taken from user guides downloaded from (FA0268-02, FA0415-01) These are differences in A/D and D/A dynamic range of both units: Parameter With input gain set to 3.5/10 there's more gain than on other interfaces with gain set to 5 or 7.Ĭompared to the PRO 24, the PRO 14's guitar inputs sounds a little bit better. Without processing recorded guitar tracks sound full, dynamic and natural. They have plenty of clean gain and sound nothing like most digital devices with instrument inputs. Hi-Z inputs are really exceptional in this unit. It's not as tight sounding as Presonus Firestudio Mobile, but it has a nice character of its own. The PRO 14 sounds pleasantly with soft low middle range and enough clarity to my ears.

#SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL TUTORIAL SOFTWARE#

This interface has pretty much standard features, but what's interesting is a software loopback stereo input which allows recording the output mix of the device. 8 inputs (4 analog, 2 S/PDIF, 2 loopback), 6 outputs (4 analog, 2 S/PDIF).It uses JetPLL jitter elimination technology that ensures stable clock and pristine audio quality. It offers 8 inputs, 6 outputs, great sounding Focusrite preamps, 2 Hi-Z inputs and a phantom power.

The Focusrite Saffire PRO 14 is a firewire audio interface for PC and Mac computers.

Saffire mixcontrol tutorial