USB audio interface keeps dropping out on Windows 11? It's probably power management
Miles Carter · TuttiDAW team · 2026-09-15 · 5 min read
My Roland Rubix 24 died with a "device error" a few minutes into every Ableton Live session. The driver was fine — Windows was quietly powering the interface down (USB selective suspend, hub power management, and the EnhancedPowerManagementEnabled registry flag). Here's the diagnosis, and a PowerShell script that fixes all three in one run.