Glad to see this is noticed.
I’ve got 2 saffire interfaces here. I’m on Mac. Pro 14 and 40. I actually had a second pro 40 but I exchanged it for a Scarlett, because there’s some problems with the midi output on the Saffires.
The saffires worked perfectly with cubase until about a year ago, at which point they both became a lot more fussy about a) clocking and b) multi-client operation.
Browsers, iTunes, CV tools etc can have distorted / crackly operation while Cubase is running, even if cubase itself is working fine. It’s less likely to happen if cubase uses a longer buffer setting. But still can happen.
Frustrating … but I usually end up routing system sounds away from the DAW interface to work-around. Didn’t used to have to do that, but something changed and I never found what! And it’s a solution that doesn’t work for every job.
A quick try of C9 shows them behaving same as C8.5. But I’ll test more over the weekend!
John