Topic: regular dropouts w UCX

Hi, I've been experiencing regular playback dropouts recently, and sometimes in recordings, and I'm pretty sure they only started after upgrading to the latest drivers. I reset the power management but it's had no effect.

Fireface UCX used with USB
Mac Mini 2011, OSX 10.7.3, firmware v42, driver 1.72.
I'm using Ableton Live for recording.

Re: regular dropouts w UCX

It would help if you rolled back to the driver before the upgrade then and report back how that affects the dropouts.

Re: regular dropouts w UCX

Hi Timur, thanks,
is it OK to use the latest Totalmix with a previous driver then? How about the firmware?

Re: regular dropouts w UCX

OK so I downgraded the driver to 1.68, but still experience dropouts.

Re: regular dropouts w UCX

Right... after downgrading both driver and firmware but still experiencing the glitches, I started plugging and unplugging other USB devices. At the moment, I reckon that having an SD card inserted in the Mac Mini's slot is the culprit. Does this seem likely? I presume my problem is not widespread, otherwise there would be a lot more noise about it!

Re: regular dropouts w UCX

Yes, that is possible. Is there more than one USB port on the Mini? Does it make a difference to use another port?

Re: regular dropouts w UCX

Yes there are 4 ports... I didn't try another port, but after 2 days now, the dropouts no longer happen since I took out the SD card.