QU16 USB Streaming to OS X Mavericks

Qu Qu Troubleshooting
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Hi there all,
I’m trying to track down recording glitches when I use the QU16 with my REAPER64 DAW under Mavericks on my Mac Mini 2012 i5 (8gb).
What I’m finding is that my mutlitrack session (only about 20 tracks and a few Izotope plugins) runs just fine - low CPU and very little RAM or disk usage but when I bounce to a master WAV and play that back- it significantly drops out about 20 sec in. The error is on the file - I hear it on other systems.

I’m not saying this is a QU16 issue at all-- this is an entirely new h/w and s/w config for me that I bought specifically because I wanted to use my QU16 with my DAW for recording and re-mixing. So the issue might be anywhere and in fact I now read that Mavericks (which was pre-insalled on the Mac Mini I purchased) does not play well with audio in lots of contexts :frowning:

But can I ask if anybody out there on this forum has any experience of using the QU16 as a recording interface with Mavericks and what you found?
Many thanks
Andy

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Hi Andy,
Have you updated Mavericks to 10.9.2 and your Qu-16 to V1.4?

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I use a MacBook Pro with mavericks.
Did a recording session a couple of weeks ago with no issue.

I use presonus studio one on the mac, and bounce down within the daw

Recorded 4 songs with abou 14 tracks on each. Qu16 running V1.3 was faultless.

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Thanks for the input all.
Issue of drop outs on Mavericks (10.9.2) with Reaper64 seems to be resolved for me by QU16 firmware v1.4 :slight_smile: So far anyway-- I’m very pleased…

All credit where it is due-- it is hard to pull this stuff together and the QU16 is a one very handy piece of gear. I’m stoked with mine :slight_smile: