In other words you want your interface connected to a USB port that is not used by anything else. But I haven't heard that being the case here. Obviously not so easy to do with a laptop. You might get away with using a wireless keyboard/mouse there, but ideal to have nothing else using the port. Especially something else streaming data like a external HDD.

One other point worth mentioning, is that any audio interface will not play nice if shared with other devices on a USB controller/port. This is where I found out about using the USB 3.0 Port. You can read what others have said concerning the OPs concerns here. When switched off it immediately shoots back down to low levels'.Īs far as crashing the OPs system, I will leave that advice to others who have more knowledge then myself but I can only assume that running your CPU at close to 100% is never a good thing concerning audio. when switched on it immediately shoots up to 30-60% (mainly around 40% with fluctuations) the culprit processes are System and system interrupts. 'When the interface is switched off, my CPU idles at around 1-5%. This is just one out of hundreds concerning the Tascam 16 x 8 spiking out the CPU by close to 100% in some cases. This seems to make the 16 x 8 run as it should. When I get back to the barn, I am going to see if my PC has any 3.0 USB ports. Like I said before, when I run my 16 x 8, my PC is screaming. I thought I would just have to live with the fact that my Tascam was just a hugh CPU hog but when I read your reply, it got me to thinking. I've unistalled the TASCAM's drivers, what is the best multi-track reording driver other than ASIO? The last one available is the US-16x08 Mixing driver, didn't even bother to try that one out. I tried ASIO4ALL v2 but I can't get it to multi-track and I'm not sure if I got bsod with this one witch is the one I always experience bsod with. With FL Studio I usually use the US-16x08 ASIO driver, I think it's the only one that let's me record different tracks at once. (Even though I only use 10), and It's pretty slow, still get bsod w/ Audacity With WASAPI I can choose whatever amount of tracks I want (from 1 to 16) but I can only record with 16 separated tracks.

With Audacity I tried MME - Can't record with 9 separeted tracks, only 2 stereo. The drivers on my pc are all up to date but I'll check it again -Īs for the interface's performance with a couple of DAWs.

The buffer size is set to 1024 samples, I could set it a little higher but that's it. I noticed when I record drums, the interface tends to jump, skip, clip during the recording, there's even some volume drops here and there.

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