leukhin Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Hi guys! I have two external sound cards: ESI ugm96 and E-MU 0204. Both of them have troubles in OSX 10.8, 10.9, 10.10. ESI ugm96 somehow amplifies the sound, so that all the pops (not happens in win7x64, win8.1x64). E-MU 0204 sometimes pops. There is no such issue in win7x64. I tested both sound cards on my Zenbook ux32a with OSX 10.9.4 and on my PC with Asus Z97-K motherboard (OSX 10.10). In all cases I haven't expected needed result. Something wrong. I have played with settings as well and this did not help. But I researched a lot and didn't find any solution. So I decided to buy another USB sound card for music production. It is really matter for me because I am suffering with this for a long time (It is just a hobby, but I like to proceed with this). Guys, do you have nice and working fine external USB sound card with your OSX 10.10? If yes, please post here its name. Or if you have any suggestion -- I will be happy to hear it. Thanks a lot for attention. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/300969-looking-for-working-usb-external-sound-card-for-yosemite-osx-1010/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
leukhin Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 Well, will answer to my question myself. I took the risk for a third time (after buying ESI and E-MU). But this time I switched from USB to FireWire. So my choice fell on Focusrite products. According to my budget I bought Focusrite Saffire PRO 14 and STLab PCI FireWire interface on Texas Instruments controller. Everything worked out of the box. No driver installation, no fixes required. Both sound recording and playback performs fine. I have Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz on my board, and I tried 32 samples buffer. In sound i heard a quiet clicks but when I switch buffer to 64 samples everything went perfectly. So I recommend to use this sound card on OS X Yosemite. Here is my settings, you can see calculated latency value (Screen Shot 2014-10-10 at 10.16.24 AM.png) Good luck guys! And have nice sound. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/300969-looking-for-working-usb-external-sound-card-for-yosemite-osx-1010/#findComment-2068018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R4yMoNd Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Thanks for sharing.. Yosemite OSX10.10.4 and I'm using Focusrite Scarlett 2i4. work great so far Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/300969-looking-for-working-usb-external-sound-card-for-yosemite-osx-1010/#findComment-2159161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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