Hey guys/girls

I just finished getting my hackintosh up and running with mavericks and am experiencing small clicks when using my Audio Interface and i dont know what is doing it as all my stuff is compatible (apart from wifi but im buying a adapter for that)


Questions yous may ask:

When do you experience the clicks?

When ever i am listening to Music, working in Logic or watching a movie so pretty much all the time.

Do you experience these clicks when you are not using the Audio Interface?

No.

Describe the clicks

little clicks about 5 seconds apart.

What driver do you have installed?

1.8

Thanks in advance

 

What sample-rate? What buffer size?

 

search for "Speedstep Hackintosh", it may help.
You can try to disable all CPU power management features in the BIOS, to see if it helps.

You will get better answers on TonyBridge, InsanelyMac

 

I have the same audio interface but I use it with Windows 10 and 8.1 PC. I also have the same issue as the OP. https://www.gearslutz.com/board/att...focusrite-18i20-stutter-glitch-3-7-second.wav I recored audio sample to better ilustrate it, listen for the stutter/glitch between 3-7 second. It's just recording of the audioplayback from winamp recorded through scalrett's S/PDIF loopback

 

Probably a problem with the driver, instead of investing in "focushieet", I would invest in RME, solve all my problems.

http://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/overview_firewire.php

 

Sweet, thx.

 

disable wifi adapter...works with my focusrite saffire...

 

I don't have one. I tried to manually disable multiply devices and it didn't work

 

Grzesiek have you tested it with Asio4All just to see if it's a driver problem?

 

Yes, i have asio4all too and it doesn't help.

 

The next thing you should do is to test it on another pc, if the same things happens there you should get you're money back

 

But before that, and to quote @Baxter: What sample-rate? What buffer size?
When using SPDIF loopback it’s important that the sample-rate matches in-, output and player-settings.
Your music is probably 44.1 Khz, so check that above settings match this samplerate (or a different one when your musicfile is different).
A samplerate mismatch can lead to the problems I’m hearing.

 

Audio sample is 44.1 kHz and it was recorded with 1024 samples buffer size, but it doesn't really matter which buffer size I would set to because only 512 would be stutter/glitch free for me. Audio sample which i presented to you is the exact representation of the audio I'm hearing from my speakers while listening to music etc. It's not affected because of the S/PDIF input/output, don't worry. If it was it would be different than the audio I hear in real time.

 

Try to use DPC Latency Checker, it should display the moment in which is the click, it will come out if it's a hardware or system fault.

http://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml

You will have to check it on the windows system, for sure, I'm sorry I do not have MAC OS.

 

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do not use DPC Latency Checker on windows 10, it does not read correct. Use LatencyMon: http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon