There is another similar thread in the last week about latency. I'll see if I can find it. The noise is almost certainly a different issue. Perhaps the beta driver doesn't work for you; that happened to me when I experimented because of crackles and pops.

Some more questions: is your Focusrite a 2nd generation unit, and what happened with the original driver?

Could you describe the noise you hear with more detail? For example, in my case it was a loud click at the start of each file (turned out to be a sample rate mismatch).


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