Focusrite Scarlett Solo Audio Interface with Pro Tools. The second-generation Scarlett boxes are simply amazing, tons of headroom and lowest latency yet!. This is great for anyone wanting to record one track at a time. It has no latency and sounds clear. I love my Focusrite Scarlett Solo! It sounds incredible, there is zero latency, the illuminated clip rings are very nice and functional, it is built like a tank and looks very nice.
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The built in preamps are great! If you know how to mix, automate, use your plug-ins and have a tight recording, it's totally possible to make a recording that sounds completely professionally produced. Didn't work. I followed all the instructions and watched all the videos, looked at all the guides. The unit will not light up, although I do not have speakers, though my friend bought the same Scarlett Solo and he ran it just fine without speakers. They claimed the clipping issue is fixed in 2nd Gen, but it's not.
I have Gibson Explorer with stock pickups (496 neck/500 bridge). Instrument port is clipping with bridge pickup at 0 gain.
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (2nd Gen) USB Audio Interface. Really low latency. Great sound quality at an affordable price. Pretty much what I wanted. Fairly clean, neutral and interference free sound using the balanced trs outputs to my JBL LSR305's. Pre-amps are of good quality, to be expected from Focusrite. Direct monitor ability is pretty useful for recording certain acoustic instruments that may not be very loud in the DAW.
No Phono out. It colours the sound of the guitar. The bass is so deep you can't remove it from the software. It sounds like everything is covered by a blanket. I have the brightest sounding guitar on the market, all maple, and sounds like it's made of sponge. Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (2nd Gen) USB Audio Interface. The inputs on the front take both XLR cables and 6.3mm cables (For guitar jacks etc.).
It looks great and easy to use. Just bear in mind line level input is by using 1/4inch jack not xlr. It is very easy. The headphones seem ideally suited to this interface and for general reference will probably replace my Shures as my work-a-day 'phones.
It would be nice to have some analogue inputs on the back but can live without. The XLR cable included with the equipment is very low quality my headphones and cable have already started to mess up after 3weeks of use. Focusrite Scarlett Solo Audio Interface with Pro Tools. The bundled software is a plus. Great stuff for very little money. The included ProTools and Ableton software completes the package and makes this a great value!.
Amazing product.comes with tons of recording daws and plug ins too.the sound is very high quality. This does exactly what it's supposed to do. I use it with Windows 10, Sonar Professional, and NI Komplete - works great, sounds great, and, yes, it is red!.
I am a aspiring voice actor, I have to constantly update the drivers and it's quite annoying. It also doesn't work well with any recording software. Sound turns into a robot half the time.
The Mic does the same thing. Adjusted pretty much everything i could to make it stop and nothing has worked, but unplugging it and plugging it back in. Very disappointed in this Focusrite Scarlett Solo 2nd Gen. Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (2nd Gen) USB Audio Interface.
Handy indicator LED's to know if your signal is peaking or not. Headphones are great, the interface includes phantom power for condenser mics and the mic itself produces great audio. Each input lights up green or red if you overload it allowing one to quickly set the recording level. The 'Gain Ring' is a really intuitive display for telling whether your input level is peaking or not. USB-C would be nice for the newer MacBook's however for much more money a USB-C model is available. Installing and registering the software proved to be a labyrinth of pointlessly difficult bull.
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Here’s the list of fixes from the chanelog: Fixes from 4.8:. Fixed causes of some crashes when using MIDI I/O. Fixed crashes when using WDM audio at higher sample rates/bit depths. Fixed some problems when resuming from Sleep/Hibernate Last week I had posted about how I’d gone back to over the 2nd gen 2i2 because the 1st gen drivers have less issues, so I was glad to see the new update available.
I haven’t had long to test the new 4.11.0 update yet, but I am going to go back to using the 2nd 2i2 again to test it out for a couple of weeks before making a final determination if I want to keep it or not. One thing I can say is that the new driver does not fix the main problem that I was encountering, but it did help me figure out part of the problem so that I can work around it. Something about the 2nd drivers don’t play well with the CamStudio screen capture program. Using screen capture causes the drivers to go haywire. With Pro Tools it will double the CPU usage, even after the screen capture program is turned off and closed.
And then even after the computer is restarted it’s still haywire until manually adjusting the buffer size from within Pro Tools. Using the ASIO app doesn’t fix it; it has to be adjusted within Pro Tools to get CPU usage back down to normal. Then I plugged the 1st gen 2i4 back in to test it and using screen capture with it doesn’t cause the CPU meter to go up one single percent; it runs perfectly at the same 44kHz/64 samples setting.
After some more testing, something else causes the drivers to crap out too. Even without using screen capture the CPU usage goes haywire with Pro Tools and the buffer size has to be adjusted to fix the problem. Actually pretty much every time I start Pro Tools I have to toggle the buffer size to get it to run smoothly. So the bottom line is the issue still persists.
Not a huge issue but an issue nonetheless, and who knows what can trigger the problems. Try using OBS Studio instead of CamStudio, surprisingly it is one of the few programs which works well with my Solo 2nd gen with the current drivers. I’ve noticed that with the new drivers when I set my 2nd gen to 48khz/64 samples, it’s a lot more stable than with 128 samples or higher, not sure why that is.
But with either setting I still get random audio issues here and there, it’s quite annoying. Currently waiting for an Audient iD4 to get in stock so I can return the Solo 2nd gen, Focusrite needs to get its driver game in gear, this isn’t really acceptable.
Hi all, Nathan/Andrei – I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been having some problems with the driver for your Scarlett. We are constantly working to improve our drivers. With the release of the Scarletts only being around a month ago, the driver has only just been exposed to a very large amount of systems (we do of course test on many systems prior to release, but it’s not possible to test on every system out there). This being the case, if you are still having any problems, we would of course like to investigate them.
If you’d like us to look into this for you, please contact us directly so that we can get some more information about your setup: Once again, I’m sorry that you’ve had some problems but we will of course be happy to look into this further for you should you wish us to. Best, Jack // Focusrite Technical Support.
Considering the state of the release drivers, I’m not sure how much effort was put in testing, given that they were causing IRQLNOTLESSOREQUAL blue screens on the most common USB chipset there is (Intel USB) in Windows 10. I am also not sure how many of your customers would appreciate being beta testers either.
I took a gamble with the Scarlett 2nd gen, I’ve read that Focusrite wasn’t exactly the best with Windows drivers and I got burned. I’ve returned my 2nd gen now and I’m going to buy an audio interface from a company that has a better track record.
Sorry if this seems harsh, but my entire experience with the Focusrite Scarlett Solo 2nd gen was pretty bad and from my point of view the only way a company will understand they need to work on an issue is if they lose sales because of it. Hi Andrei, I’m very sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with a Scarlett Solo.
We do take driver creation and testing very seriously and we certainly do not expect our customers to be ‘beta testers’. We were aware of some blue screen issues with version 4.8 of the release driver, this was swiftly corrected and we’re not seeing the same issues with the current release build (4.11). Blue screen issues tend to be the result of often fairly complex driver/process interactions. While we test with as many different hardware combinations as we can, it’s not possible to test with every configuration of USB chipset, USB chipset driver revision, graphics card, WiFi/network adapter, BIOS version, operating system build etc. As mentioned in my last post, we are continually working on our drivers to improve both performance and stability across all systems. Once again, I can only apologise for the bad experience that you had with your Scarlett Solo. If you have any problems or would like any information about any of our products in future please get in touch and we’ll do everything we can to help.
Best, Jack // Focusrite Technical Support. My 2nd gen 2i4 is about 3 months old now. I had to borrow a friends PC because it still doesn’t work on my Win-7 (64) system, even after doing a full update. On my friends PC (win-8), it worked but while using Reason-4 via Rewire in Cubase-5, the DSP meter (in Reason-4) is fully in the red. Returned the Win-8 system and now I’m sitting with a brand new 2i4 about to be sold.
I used the 1st gen 2 years ago without any issues and thought this would be similar.the usb cable is also extremely short and can’t be switched to a longer one, because then the unit doesn’t work.what a waste.