Crackling noises in recording with E-MU 0202 interface

All,
I have:
An iMac Retina (3.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB, 1TB Fusion Drive) with Mac OS 10.10.1
Logic Pro 10.0.1
An audio interface Creative E-MU 0202 (USB 2.0) connected directly to my iMac. I don't installed the creative driver for Mac OS, but pluged directly my audio interface, and Logic Pro see the interface.
After a recording from audio track on Logic Pro with an acoustic guitare or a microphone for the voice plugged directly to the audio interface, when I'm listning the recording, I have some crakling noises.
I am in 44,1 Khz and 24 bits.
I changed 3 parameters on Logic Pro, but I have the same issue:
- IO buffer size: 1024
- Processing: 4
- Buffer size porcessing: big
Thanks in advance for your help.
Jean-Baptiste

The problem may well be that the Creative E-MU 0202 is already described as "End of Service Life" by Creative (meaning it's old and they don't care about providing support for it any longer!) so no further support/drivers for newer OS X versions are available...which is often required especially when it comes down to older USB2 devices that have issues connected to USB3 ports on newer Macs...
However....
You might want to try using a Powered USB2 hub.. Connect the 0202 to that and then connect the hub to your USB3 port and see if that resolvs the matter....
Note: Don't connect anything else to the hub initially at least.. and test....
For many older USB2 Audio devices this fixes such issues... but its not a certainty by any means...

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