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I haven't had too many problems with my Focusrite Clarett 8Pre. I do realize it's probably different from the Focusrite Red 16Line that @PTuser is user though. I've used this interface successfully an Alpine Ridge thunderbolt card, and also also on this board with on-board TB now without any real issues. When I was using with the Alpine Ridge card, I could *only* get it to work if I first booted into Windows, allowed access to the device first, then hot-booted back into OSX and left it on. Sleep, rebooting, or turning the thunderbolt device off would kill support until I rebooted back in to windows.
I otherwise haven't had any issues except sometimes OSX drops it out (but, I think that's a problem with the device's firmware, which used to require a reboot, but now with this motherboard I can powercycle the device without rebooting which fixes it), and it sometimes reverts to the wrong click setting (ie: it sometimes randomly starts looking for an external clock, instead of using the internal (I don't have an external clock connected)). It obviously won't 'work' without an external clock when it's set to look for one. I've noticed some odd clicking/issues while using it under Windows however, but never under OSX.
I contacted Focusrite about it, which acknowledged it's a known firmware bug that they would fix, however... it looks like they stopped making the interface I have now, and the firmware hasn't been updated much past initial launch, so...looks like they just kinda left people hanging who own it.
All in all - minor things, no major issues or workarounds required on my part. Looking at this Focusrite Red 16Line, I'm not sure that there is even any Windows support for it so... I think most of what I've experienced with my Clarett is probably irrelevant
Have you tried connecting the Red to an un-flashed GC-Titan Ridge?
I was wondering this too - I think the next step is to use it on an un-flashed thunderbolt bus.
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