I'm going to make a full comparison on this topic next, as soon as I have some free time from work. I can totally hear differences between DI tracks recorded with my brand new Scarlett and my old M-Track MKII. Maybe I could tweak it a little bit more, but I'm comfortable playing like this. I managed to get only 6 milliseconds of latency setting the ASIO buffer to 128 and the recording sample rate to 48.000Hz. Clicking on the ASIO Configuration button it loads up the ASIO Control Panel: the main goal is to have the lowest latency possible (in Reaper you can see it on the top right corner of the program's main window, under the X button).
Opened Reaper, but it didn't work correctly, because I needed to configure it to use the new Scarlett and its new drivers that I just installed, so I went to Options -> Preferences (shortcut is Control + P) and under the Device tab I had to change the drivers from my old ASIO4ALL to the new Focusrite USB ASIO. Reaper setup (ASIO sample rate and buffer size): Now I connected the soundcard to my PC, rebooted it and waited for the system to finish loading. Same thing for all the bundled software applications, downloaded and installed smoothly.
exe file and clicking Ok a bunch of times, as usual. Installed in 2 seconds just by double clicking the. On the rear panel there's the Kensington Security slot (did any of you ever use one? I didn't) and the USB port and the two mono outputs, obviously for a Left and Right speaker.įirst of all I needed to register to the Focusrite site and in my account's page I managed to download the latest Windows 10 drivers (4.36.5-612). On the right side there are the Phantom +48V power and the Direct Monitoring switches, and also the Headphones and Main Volume knobs.
On the front panel it has 2 input preamps and they both have a gain knob and can host a jack or an XLR cable at Line or Instrument impedance. At first glance it's very stylish, claassy red USB cable and outer shield. I'm going to use it for heavy metal guitars to track, maybe I won't use all of the software included. It's a 2-inputs 2-outputs USB audio soundcard that can record up to 24-bits 192KHz and it comes with some software bundled such as Ableton Live Lite, Pro Tools First, Addictive keys and Softube to name some. So it's the 2nd generation of Scarletts meaning it has more room in the gain stage (1st Gens used to clip even at 0 gain when playing with very high output pickups). Hello everybody! I recently switched from an old M-Track MKII to a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 and as soon as I played few notes recording through (using Reaper/Win10) it I could immediately hear the overall clarity of sound has improved a lot.īought it from Amazon (around 120,00 euros) and came home in few days.