I don't really know much about audio, but it's very user friendly and pretty much self explainatory in all aspects. All together an amazing product that does what it's designed for extremely well while looking good. There's nothing bad to say about the sound, playing guitar in TH3 feels like it's straight through an amp, no delay whatsoever and a great full sound. Everything feels and looks high quality and the controls are intuitive. I'm using this audio interface with my XLR microphone and my electric guitar, to simulate amplifiers in Cakewalk TH3. I really don't need the 'Air' feature, but that might just be a matter of taste. Nice sound, very low background noise, good latencies, and I like the direct monitoring feature. I don't know if there are other ways to set the device into operation mode, so if you don't have access to a windows or mac computer, I would advise against buying this audio interface.Īlthough, when you got it working, it seems to be a pretty good audio interface and i had no problems so far. After the firmware update the scarlett worked without further configuration on my Arch Linux laptop. So I had to go to my parents place, plug my scarlett into their old windows pc and download the necessary software from Focusrite, which then performed a firmware update on the device and set it into 'sound card mode'.

But sadly the software is only available for windows and mac.

It needs to be set into its operational mode before you can actually use it, which is done using Focusrite's control software. So when you plug it into your computer the first time, it appears like a usb drive and is not usable as a soundcard. The problem is that the 2i2 3rd gen ships in mass storage mode. While the 2i2 2nd Gen seemes to have worked right out of the box under linux operating systems, this is no longer the case with the 3rd generation. I bought this device because its predecessor had a pretty good reputation in the linux world.

Focusrite scarlett 2i2 studio 3rd gen