Any users happily running a Firewire interface on Win 10?
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- KVRAF
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- 2279 posts since 9 Jun, 2002 from East of Santa Monica
I love all three of my FW interfaces (Steinberg MR816X, TC Electronic Konnekt 24D and Konnekt 6): Rock solid drivers, great sound... basically they just work.
Things is, I'm still on Win 8.1. I've heard too many stories about how temperamental Win 10 is, especially as it relates to Firewire support.
For example, Focusrite's support page confirms that my Firewire PCIe add-on card - an older TI chipset rock-solid under Win7/8 - started causing problems under Win 10, so they don't recommend it anymore. While they did suggest a different card-chipset for Win10, the fact they discontinued their own FW line of interfaces doesn't exactly instill me with confidence.
Obviously I know I could ditch the FW units and go with USB 2/3 -- but like I said, my setup ain't broke, and If I can upgrade the O.S. without breaking anything else, I'm good for a few more years!
I know there are a quite a few FW interface owners out there on Win 10. I'd love to hear from those of you running a solid setup: What's your interface, and the FW chipset you're using? Current or legacy drivers? Do you keep Win 10 fully updated, or not?
TIA
Things is, I'm still on Win 8.1. I've heard too many stories about how temperamental Win 10 is, especially as it relates to Firewire support.
For example, Focusrite's support page confirms that my Firewire PCIe add-on card - an older TI chipset rock-solid under Win7/8 - started causing problems under Win 10, so they don't recommend it anymore. While they did suggest a different card-chipset for Win10, the fact they discontinued their own FW line of interfaces doesn't exactly instill me with confidence.
Obviously I know I could ditch the FW units and go with USB 2/3 -- but like I said, my setup ain't broke, and If I can upgrade the O.S. without breaking anything else, I'm good for a few more years!
I know there are a quite a few FW interface owners out there on Win 10. I'd love to hear from those of you running a solid setup: What's your interface, and the FW chipset you're using? Current or legacy drivers? Do you keep Win 10 fully updated, or not?
TIA
- KVRAF
- 7137 posts since 8 Feb, 2003 from London, UK
My Audiofire4 is still holding on. Last driver update was... a while back! (Just after Windows 8 came out.) Doesn't work with everything... but Reaper is fine. For my new computer I got a Zoom UAC-2... Which is nice and new.
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- KVRAF
- 2505 posts since 13 Jun, 2008 from Napier,New Zealand
My Presonus Firestudio started to have issues. It worked fine with older versions of Windows 10, but with newer versions I was getting a lot of audio drop-outs, on play-back and recording. I'd love to just use an older/stable version of Windows 10, but I use that computer on the net, and haven't been able to work out any way of successfully stopping the updates. Anyway, the hardware hadn't actually been supported since Windows 7, so I bit the bullet and got a Tascam USB one... And it sucks.
- KVRAF
- 14991 posts since 26 Jun, 2006 from San Francisco Bay Area
I’m using a UAD FireWire 8 on the latest version of Windows with no problems.
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- KVRian
- 1099 posts since 20 Nov, 2004 from Seinäjoki, Finland
Focusrite Saffire DSP 24 here on Windows 10. No FW issues whatsoever.
- KVRAF
- 14991 posts since 26 Jun, 2006 from San Francisco Bay Area
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- KVRAF
- 6305 posts since 9 Dec, 2008 from Berlin
My GF also runs her Focusrite Saffire DSP 24 on Windows 10 for years without issues.
I think it runs on the motherboard Firewire port, no idea what the chipset is though, IIRC it's an old Asus board with one of the early 4 core i7s.
Cheers,
Tom
I think it runs on the motherboard Firewire port, no idea what the chipset is though, IIRC it's an old Asus board with one of the early 4 core i7s.
Cheers,
Tom
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- KVRian
- 1439 posts since 25 Nov, 2008 from Seattle, WA
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- KVRAF
- 3057 posts since 4 Jan, 2005
I've moved on from my Echo Audiofire4 firewire to a Native Instruments komplete audio 6 mk2 usb2 device . Firewire worked best on Windows7 and XP. I'm very happy with the newer device .
- KVRist
- 105 posts since 7 May, 2002 from France
I've moved my FireStudio Mobile from Win10 to a new PC on Win11 and it was a bad idea because I discovered that Presonus don't support anymore Win11 for FW interfaces. The strange thing is that I can listen to web radio without problem but when I'm using Reaper or Reason, I get audio clics and drops-out.
Any update on these interfaces ?
Any update on these interfaces ?
- KVRAF
- 5958 posts since 16 Aug, 2017 from UK
MOTU Traveler MKI OK with VIA (Texas Instruments?) FireWire card
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