Saffire 6 audio device closed

[Fred Claughton]

Coming back to Reaper after a few months I'm finding Reaper and my Focusrite Saffire 6 are not seeing eye to eye. Reaper states in top left 'device closed'. I have two options for ASIO device, neither work. I select enable inputs but no option appear for input 1 and input 2.
The fosusrite functions for audio on my pc.
I have tried reinstalling both the drive and resaper itself, starting windows 10 with focusrite connected and not connected.
Running out of ideas

[suchatravesty]

I'm not familiar with that interface but it's possible that something else has a hold of the driver and not letting go?
I have a Tascam interface and even with it connected through usb, the audio inputs won't show up until I fire up the Tascam monitoring software first.

There is a checkbox in Windows audio device properties, "allow apps to take exclusive control of this device." I've had different results having this checked and not checked, Tascam's are kinda screwy.

[ivansc]

FWIW Focusrite recently released a new improved spftware diver for all their older interfaces.

I gave up on my saffire 6 years ago & moved to an RME Babyface, but from reading other threads, it looks like the new drivers could do the trick. Go download the new driver & see how it goes!

[Fred Claughton]

Turns out the Saffire is very choosy as to which USB its connected to and what else is using the other USB ports
Many thanks for the replies

[ivansc]

Worth checking that you are running the latest ASIO driver then, just in case.