To directly monitor a mic, guitar, keyboard, synthesiser through your speakers/headphones without turning on the computer IMPORTANT NOTE: we have had a very small number of reports of Macs not booting up correctly after installing our software and rebooting the system on High Sierra 10.13. Please see this article for more information. Ensure Focusrite Control has been installed to the main C: drive of your computer. Installing Focusrite Control to a secondary drive can cause issues. If in doubt, please reinstall Focusrite Control using the default options. NO - Clarett+ interfaces are class compliant, and are likely to work with Mojave as a basic audio device. However, the earliest version of Focusrite Control to support Clarett+ will not run on Mojave 10.14. Retain 48V - This allows you to control if the phantom power option is on by default when the unit is power cycled.

Following down on the left side of the software, the third bubble down will show your Monitor Controls. This section establishes what line output range the Main Monitor encoder will control. In most programs, Outputs 1 & 2 are typically the main outputs. For surround-sound monitoring, you would want all outputs on the same encoder, as shown below: Products marked " Untested but likely to work " are cases where a product was either not available during the testing phase of this operating system (we typically test on the two previous two operating system builds ahead of a product's release), or had been discontinued and no longer tested upon the operating system's release.Incl. USB cable (type C to A) and Hitmaker Expansion software bundle (Ableton Live Lite, 3 months Splice Sounds membership and Plug-in bundle for songwriting, mixing and mastering) Eight inputs and ten outputs; eight 3rd Generation mic pres, two Hi-Z instrument inputs, and ten balanced outputs plus ADAT input and output for up to eight more channels each way. Software interface is fairly intuitive and enables users to make alternative monitoring. Drivers are working without problem with Voiceomeeter Banana stuff. My old Steinberg card does not work with them properly.

If you are not able to see your Focusrite interface in Focusrite Control , you may see one of two error messages : The best card I could find for the price which enables to do anything. Physical channels can be expandable with a preamp via an optic cable. 8 physical inputs are mostly enough for fieldwork.

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To do this, you need to connect a second optical cable between the optical ADAT output of the Host unit and the optical ADAT input of the Expansion unit.

Your interface is now ready to use! If you're using recording software then make sure you select the Focusrite ASIO driver in the audio settings for that software. If your 2nd Gen Solo, 2i2 or 2i4 appears as separate Input and Output devices on macOS Sierra 10.12.2, complete the steps in this article. When your interface needs a firmware update, a box will appear when you first open Focusrite Control letting you know. Please install the firmware update if Focusrite Control tells you. For users of macOS 11 Big Sur or later, you can find our support information for Intel and Apple silicon Macs here. Remote Devices (not shown) - If you want to control Focusrite Control remotely using Focusrite Control for iOS, compatible devices will show up here for enabling.

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YES - Follow the steps at the end of this article if your system crashes when connecting a 2nd Gen Scarlett. NO - We recommend against using Saffire 6 USB 1.1 with macOS Ventura 13. See our statement regarding Saffire 6 USB 1.1 here. The only issue I have with this device it's that it has ONE bus mixer. Means you can create one "custom mix" aka virtual mixer (with whichever physical or software inputs you like) and then assign this one mix output it to whichever outputs you like but there's only ONE such stereo mix. It means that you can't for example pass line-in 7-8 to out 1-2 and line-in 5-6 to out 3-4 as that would require 2 independent virtual mixers which is not possible. If your Focusrite interface needs a firmware update, it will update when you open the latest version of Focusrite Control, on a Windows or Mac computer. You need to connect your Focusrite interface to your computer before Focusrite Control will tell you if it needs a firmware update.