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Saffire Mix Control 3.9 (Mac)

The Focusrite Saffire Pro 40, a multichannel FireWire audio interface designed with today's project studio in mind, and delivers the sound quality of much more expensive interfaces. Focusrite's unparalleled preamp legacy forms the foundation of the Saffire Pro 40 interface, with eight award-winning Focusrite preamps.

• Thank you for purchasing Saffire PRO 40, the latest Focusrite professional multi-channel Firewire interface. You now have a complete solution for routing high quality audio in and out of your computer. This Guide provides a detailed explanation of both the hardware and accompanying control software “Saffire MixControl” to help you.
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• Saffire PRO 26 is an 18-in, 8-out 24-bit/96kHz Firewire interface designed with the professional user in mind. Its four award-winning Focusrite preamps along with the latest in A-D/D-A conversion technology combine with the powerful Saffire Mix Control software to deliver professional sound quality, flexible routing options and rock-solid.
• Saffire, Saffire LE, Saffire Pro 10/26 users: Increase the FireWire buffer size on your FireWire card, found at C: Program Files Focusrite Saffire product Driver ASIOControlPanel.exe (where Saffire product is the name of your Saffire product). Its default setting is 2ms, but you may find that increasing it helps connectivity and will.

This will be the last software release for the Saffire range as they are now discontinued, please see this article from our Help Centre.

Tested on:
• macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
• macOS 10.14 (Mojave)
• macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)
• macOS 10.12 (Sierra)

macOS 10.12 or later is required to run Saffire Mix Control 3.9. This version will not install on macOS 10.11 or earlier.

What’s New

• Saffire Mix Control is now a 64-bit application
• Updates Saffire Pro40 firmware to either r2761 or r742 depending on hardware revision. Fixes no audio from second Pro40 sync slave on dual mode (also available in previous 3.8b1 beta)
• Updates driver to r2991. Fixes issue where DAW channels 17-20 were not present on a Saffire Pro40 (also available in previous 3.8b1 beta).

Saffire Mix Control 3.7

Includes a fix for Saffire interfaces that would not retain their Sync Source in standalone mode.

Includes a fix for OS X users seeing the 'No Hardware Connected' message and experiencing disconnects on account of there being 2 drivers installed (after the 3.5/3.6 upgrade).

Includes a fix to keep Saffire Mix Control running after new firmware is deployed to the Saffire interface.

Saffire Mix Control 3.4 (Unsupported Legacy Version)

This installer includes all necessary drivers and software to run the firewire Saffire range of Focusrite interfaces.

Release notes

- Fixed issue that might cause glitches using Quicktime on OS X Mavericks

- Fixed issue that might cause distortion on second ADAT port and loopback using Liquid Saffire 56

- Improved sample rate switching

Tested with:

- Mac OS 10.8

- Mac OS 10.9

- Windows 7

- Windows 8

Software For Focusrite Saffire Pro Firewire Driver

Please note: this version of Saffire MixControl is no longer supported. For the latest supported version please see the latest release version on this page.

For further OS compatibility information please see the OS checker HERE.

Software For Focusrite Saffire Pro Firewire Driver

Saffire Mix Control 2.4 (Unsupported Legacy Version)

- Driver updated to 3.5.6 release
- Adds compatibility for Mac OS 10.7 (Lion)
- Improves performance with Pro Tools 9 (Mac and PC)
- Fixed snapshot load/save functions (Mac)
- Fixed crash on non-admin accounts (Mac)

Additional Information:

PC Users This release requires the use of the Windows Legacy FireWire Driver on Windows 7 64-bit. Windows 7 32-bit users should however use the default Windows 7 FireWire driver.

Mac Users Users of Tiger (10.4.11) should install version 1.8, below.

Focusrite Saffire Pro 26

Please note: this version of Saffire MixControl is no longer supported. For the latest supported version please see the latest release version on this page.

Standalone Mode User Guide

User guide explaining standalone mode operation for the Saffire interfaces. Please note that Saffire MixControl v1.7 or above is required for standalone operation.

Saffire PRO 40 User Guide

FireWire safety when plugging and unplugging devices

Software For Focusrite Saffire Pro Firewire Printer

This article explains the steps necessary to safely plug in and unplug your FireWire devices without causing damage to the device or your computer.