Topic: Problem w/ UFX II USB
I've used a Fireface 800 for 12 years with never so much a hint of a glitch. Never in all that time did I ever have issues with playback or recording via a PCIe firewire interface.
So I thought I'd update/upgrade to a UFX II... and save a little since I don't really need the bandwidth of the UFX+.
However, since I've been using the UFXII... I'm experiencing random dropouts from just playing back jRiver stereo flac via the ASIO MADIface USB drivers, where I never in all the years of using the FF800 experienced any dropouts.
The audio will play back fine most of the time, but then doing something like browsing the internet, or moving files will cause a momentary audio drop out, out of nowhere... that lasts a fraction of a second, and then resumes playing. Only to possibly momentarily drop out again a few minutes later.
It could very well be mouse movement interrupting or something similar. But like I said... same PC, same mouse, same software... I never ever experienced this problem using the Fireface firewire interface... which also used a PCIe connected firewire port.
Needless to say... I'm more than a little disappointed, as I always attributed never having problems in any scenario to the excellent driver support from RME for the FF800. So when firewire support for the new interfaces was dropped, and RME said they wrote the drivers to specifically not have the normal problems many other USB interfaces experienced... I believed it.
But it seems that the firewire interface was much more flawlessly interfaced than the USB interfaces are now.
Am I missing something? I'm using a PCIe USB3 interface, with only the UFX II on the card. The USB card is a high quality RocketU 1144D. I haven't had a chance to put the UFXII through a normal multitrack session yet... but I'm a little worried, since I'm getting a dropout with stereo playback sometimes that I never experienced with the firewire interface. I had hoped that the change to RME USB interface would be just as flawless as the firewire... but apparently not. I splurged for a higher priced interface from RME, but what should be the "better" interface in the UFX II is not working as well as the old FF800.
I also have a Benchmark DAC2 DX I sometimes use (off while the UFX II is on), also running on the same system, also on a USB port... that never drops out in stereo play (so why does the UFX II?).
Any ideas? System specs:
Windows 10 Pro
i7 5930k @ 3.7 Ghz
32GB RAM
Samsung SSD OS and Project Drives on internal SATA3
Nothing else on the USB ports except iLok, Syncrosoft, and keboard/mouse... and they're on the motherboard equipped USB ports... not the dedicated PCIe RocketU 1144D port.
Thanks for any ideas or help.