UR824 mysterious clipping on recordings

Thanks for responding! Looking through your questions it’s clear you’re responding to ErpCreature, I’ll post my responses here, but let me know if you think it’s a different issue and I should create a new thread

From my previous message: killed all other programs and kept a close eye on Activity Monitor

ErpCreature is using a UR824, I’m using a UR44

I increased my buffer size to 512 and it didn’t have any noticeable change, but then it doesn’t appear usage was the underlying problem

I am not a Cubase user, I don’t have the program installed, is there a way to do this without the program?

Power settings are disabled, my workflow requires the internet when I record, so I didn’t try that.

I did all my testing on Reaper, then Audacity, then Garageband.

No. But I did try the other USB port on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) and noticed no difference.