At "fuzzydude’s " request I’ll report my experience with the AXR4T with Windows driver so far: I’ve had the unit working with the Windows drivers now for a little over 5 weeks. I leave the unit on nearly all of the time, because it also acts as my computers sound card. It has been extremely stable so far with excellent sound quality. I have been running it at 96 sample rate with the UR 824 connected through ADAT A & B giving me another 8 channels of audio input at 96 sample rate as well. I am using every input on both units. I am also using every usb port availabe on my computer plus an additional 8 usb ports on a hub to get all of my MIDI devices connected through Cubase. Having the Thunderbolt as the base unit seems much improved in stability and latency. Because of my many devices I was having latency issues with just using the usb UR824 as the base unit, and I was only able to run it at 48 sample rate when connecting ADAT to my MR816csx’s. Every so often when I have all of my devices turned on at once in Cubase One of my midi devices might stop sending/receiving MIDI and I have to turn the unit off and back on to get it to be recognized again. I attribute this to the # of units I have connected and the number and length of my USB cables and also the MIDI cables coming out of some units and into others. I typically have 12 to 16 USB/MIDI devices plus the Thunderbolt AXR4T running through Cubase Pro 10. I tried using the 384 rate once just to say that I did it, but I cant really notice the difference with my ear from the 96 rate and I would rather have the extra audio inputs because I have to many units in the studio. I could solve this by buying 2 more AXR4T’s, but I am already in trouble with the wife for spending $2700 on the first one! Any I am very happy so far with the unit using the Windows Drivers and would highly recommend the unit to anyone who can afford it. P.S. both the guitar and Mic sound great plugged into the front inputs using the silk textures.
Many thanks for all the info, greatly appreciated
I was hoping you might be able to let me know the input and output latency figures you’re seeing in Studio Setup VST Audio System, both at 48 and at 96. I’m wondering what can be achieved with the buffer set at 128. I’ve got two more units to replace and keen to know if the RTL is as good as our new Apollo X’s and our RME UFX+. If it is, based on the good reports in Windows I’ll get a couple of these. Thank s again.
