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Old 10-30-2021, 07:47 AM
Darryl Ramm Darryl Ramm is offline
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Default Re: Crunchy distortion with 002 rack

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Originally Posted by kw88keys View Post
Oh..and BTW, just purchased a PreSonus Quantum 2626 26x26 Thunderbolt 3 Audio Interface from Sweetwater. I hope it connects ok with my USB-C slot on my computer. I'm eager to see how this runs.
Uh oh. Unfortunately you are confused about Thunderbolt, which is easy to do. I suspect you will want to return the PreSonus Quantum 2626 asap and make sure you get your money back.

USB-C is just a physical connector spec, what a USB-C port delivers you have to always be careful of.

Your ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) motherboard has a USB-C connector, I believe delivering 3.2 Gen 2 but not Thunderbolt. And I don't think your motherboard has a Thunderbolt header (and no BIOS support?) to allow you to add a Thunderbolt adapter card (but check with ASUS or your system builder). Thunderbolt is Intel developed technology, and AMD processor motherboards had no support for Thunderbolt or Thunderbolt add-in cards (which ASUS do make at least for other motherboards) until fairly recently.

There are lots of nice Thunderbolt interfaces out there, but Thunderbolt on Windows is unfortunately not great at times, so even if your PC had Thunderbolt it's also maybe a good idea to check folks are using any exact Windows Thunderbolt setup with a particular Thunderbolt interface.

All of which I was skipping over by suggesting you look at USB interfaces.
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