Originally Posted By: dylanw
Originally Posted By: Mike Halloran
Originally Posted By: BlueAttitude
Originally Posted By: Mike Halloran

Focusrite's version is called 3rd Generation and those are the ones you want. Avoid the older ones.



I've got a 1st generation Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 here, no problems with it whatsoever. I use it for recording guitar tracks, no noticeable latency.
And there's nothing wrong with that but you have to set it up within an app to fake low latency. It's USB 1.1 and 1/10 the round trip speed of the new units.

The Focusrite Scarlett series have been USB 2 from the beginning.
Nope. It's easy to be confused on this point.

The Gen 3 interfaces operate at "high speed USB 2.0" and are not backwards compatible. This is true of all of the new USB 2 interfaces released since August 2019 that use this new chip set, no matter which manufacturer.

The 1st & 2nd generation Scarletts may require firmware upgrades to become USB 2 Class Compliant. In addition, they require apps to compensate for latency. The 1st gen uses Scarlett Mix Control while the 2nd gen uses Focusrite Control, both downloadable from the support site.

Personally, I've already bought the Mackie FxPro12v3 with this same technology because I like the Onyx preamps and get seven along with a standard mixer layout for $329. I want a smaller box for my desktop, however. The Scarlett 4i4 gen 3 ($229) and MOTU M4 ($219) are the likely contenders — unless something blows me away at NAMM this week.

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