USB Interface Horror – Weird Issue – Seeking for Help

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I just bought some hardware – Polyend Tracker and Medusa – to have less laptop focused production fun.
Since my old interface – Mackie Onyx Blackjack – has two inputs and now I need minimum three inputs I started to check out whats on the market... I was surprised there are not so much "medium-sized" interfaces.

However, I ordered Behringer U-Phoria UMC404HD and Komplete Audio 6 MKII by Native Instruments.
While the NI one was a catastrophe at all (and a story on its own) I ran into a weird bug with the Behringer one as well with the NI one.

My Setup & Condtions
  • Fairly new Lenovo ThinkPad with AMD Ryzen 7 3700U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.30 GHz and 16gb Ram.
  • Win10 64-bit (always up to date)
  • Live 11 (always up to date)
  • LatencyMon gives me good measurement
This setup with my Mackie Onyx Blackjack over ASIO4ALL runs perfect! 44.1/24-bit Buffersize 512-1024.
Even on high cpu levels (up to 97% in Live) no problems...
But the new interfaces can't handle my setup properly...

Problem
When I run the Behringer I get on one of the channel where my synth is connected a weird short interruption noise. It is not periodical. It is not loud just like a short interruption. Just a couple of ms. I can see it on the waveform as well. A sine wave just "breaks in" for a ms. It's not coming from the synth itself and it's not there with my Mackie interface. I tried a couple of different settings for the interface: ASIO4ALL, Behringer's own driver, different buffersizes and sampling rates nothing worked.

What the heck is the possible issue?

If you can recommend an affordable interface with min 3 inputs please let me know.
rabbit in a hole

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I would look at Lenovo site and update all drivers - those are usually not part of Windows updates. Hardware drivers interact differently.

I have a horrible experience with a one year old Asus, and since I turned off all windows updates 8 months ago and had lots of bugs I looked at Asus. After updating everything starting working better, almost good now.

Sudden freezes, crackles as browsing, certain settings did not work like if to connect automatically at boot that I thought would be windows stuff, but seems not. All fixed by manufacturer updated drivers.

In my case it was everything like touchpad, audio, graphics, network, sd card slot, chipset, bios and whatnot. I also found intel updates of ssd-disk. Even had case with dvd-writer on a stationary that needed firmware update. Do it all is my suggestion.

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