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Massive problem with audio interface

Hi there.


I recently bought a brandnew iMac 27" Haswell i7. I encountered problems with my Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 audio interface. These are buzzing, clicking and noise immediately or after 3 minutes or so. I tried everything, re-installed the driveres several times, nothing, really nothing worked.


Then I bought an RME Babyface audio interface - and guess what? It's the same problem. I also have a massive sound noise after some minutes or the recording channel in Garage Band drops completely.


What is wrong here? I already tried using a different power plug, tried all USB ports, turned off WiFi, HDD sleep mode, etc. Nothing worked.


Do you have an idea?


I appeciate your help,

Adrian.

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 25, 2013 1:29 PM

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Feb 17, 2014 3:01 PM in response to derKlecks

Hey guys I'm having a similar problem. I have a 27 inch late 2013 iMac with i7 16GB RAM with 1 TB Fusion drive. I'm trying to run my Digi 003 rack with a slaved Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 through Logic Pro X but I get nothing. I will get some playback for about a minute or two and then I get dead silence when the 1394 Host light turns off. Called apple and spoke with "Dave". He tried to walk me through it and had to call me back in 20 minutes to do research of his own because even he did not know. He called back and all he could offer as help was "open a case with apple or wait for apple to make an update". SO FRUSTRATED. Downloading 10.9.2 beta now. Hopefully it works

Feb 18, 2014 3:55 AM in response to Jedster2000

OMG are you.

reason i say OMG is that ive had all the same issues with my previous late 2013 Imac i7 1TB FD running my Saffire Pro 40, audio dropped after 20 seconds or less, installed Beta of 10.9.2 stopped audio drop outs but then picked up audio glitches, so wasnt a complete fix IMO.


anyhow just got a refund and have ordered a new i7 with 512GB SSD, thinking that this would solve my problem, or at least that's what it sounded like after reading the many threads around the net on this topic.


so are you still having problems and what are they ? what card are you running ?

an have you spoken to apple yet ?


cheers

Glen

Feb 18, 2014 6:12 AM in response to derKlecks

HEy Everybody! The latest 10.9.2 Beta has fixed all my problems. I'm running an iMac 27-inch 3.2 Intel Core, 1TB Fusion Drive, 16gigs Ram... i use the RME Babyface and Ableton Live 9 Suite with various plug-ins. I had been using the external backup drive which has been a pain in the *** as far as transferring sessions over and being able to use all the same plug-ins. I downloaded Beta 13C59 yesterday and have had ZERO problems for at least 4 hours of recording, playback, rhapsody listening...


FINALLY!


Now time to make an album!

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