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For a lark I bought a used Presonus Firestudio Project. Installed the latest driver and wow...... it is far cleaner buffer wise. Easily getting 64 sample buffer at 80% CPU and 32 at 60% CPU.

Right...! That doesn't bode well. Can I ask do you use the aggregate audio driver with the AF12 at all?

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I certainly don't pretend to even come close to understanding the intricacies surrounding host program and device driver interaction. I'm a bass player, this stuff is all voodoo to me! :)

That's alright I'm a drummer. We should make a good pair! :)

I've been using the base 2 settings out of ...

Utter hearsay, but I was told by someone at some point that in general the buffer size likes base 2 numbers e.g. 64, 128, 256, 512, etc. I have no scientific evidence or knowledge that there is anything to this theory, but I always use them - just in case...

FWIW I run 128 on my two AF12's at 24 ...

Also really curious if the OP got his single AF12 running smoothly?

Not quite there yet. Marcel at Echo support has been a great help. He pointed me to a newer (yet unreleased) V 5.8 driver. I thought this was helping. But, much like dafragsta, changing the buffer up or down seems like a crap ...