Double-click the FireWire controller device to which your audio interface is connected.Expand the IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers section.Choose Device Manager from the list of items on the left side of the window.Turn on the computer, start Windows 7, and log in to your Windows user account.
This issue has been reported to Microsoft, and a change to the MOTU FireWire audio driver that will avoid the problem is planned if a patch from Microsoft is not available when the next MOTU driver update is released.Īt this time, it is possible to work around the problem by configuring Windows to use an older version of the FireWire controller driver:
Using the Legacy FireWire Driver in Windows 7ĭue to a problem with the default FireWire (IEEE 1394) driver in Windows 7, MOTU FireWire audio interfaces may exhibit symptoms such as audio artifacts or dropouts during audio playback or recording or while an audio client program uses the driver program.
