FA66 Drivers?

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2015/06/04 09:06:14 (permalink)

FA66 Drivers?

Will the drivers for my FA66 be updated to work with Windows 10? Thanks

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    Karyn
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    Re: FA66 Drivers? 2015/06/04 11:03:17 (permalink)
     You'll have to ask Roland that one.  The Cakewalk interfaces from that time such as the FA-66 were re-branded Edirol units, which themselves were mostly re-branded Roland units.
    If you find out, post here as I have the Edirol FA-66....
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    Re: FA66 Drivers? 2015/07/30 21:57:19 (permalink)
    Hi Karyn,
     
    No drivers for Windows 10 but the 64 bit driver for Windows 8/8.1 works perfectly. Loving Win 10 so far.

    Win 10 x 64; CbB; SPlat; MixCraft 8 Pro; AMD FX4130, 3.8 GHz; DDR3 32 GB Ram; Focusrite Scarlett 18i20; SSD 1TB, 2 x 1TB and 1 x 640 GB HDD; Mackie HR624 Monitors, KRK G2 Rockit 5's, Dual HP S2331 23" Monitors
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    Re: FA66 Drivers? 2015/07/30 22:30:13 (permalink)
    I've the cakewalk SPS 66 which I think is just a rebranded FA66.  It continued to work fine after upgrading to win 10.
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    Re: FA66 Drivers? 2015/07/31 03:31:07 (permalink)
    That's good to know MackTheKnight, I also have the SPS-66 and intend to upgrade to win10 in the next few weeks . I'm sure you're correct about it being a re-branded FA-66. Are you using Windows 8 drivers in compatibility mode?
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    Re: FA66 Drivers? 2015/07/31 10:49:13 (permalink)
    I'll have to check later tonight - Either Win 10 has built in drivers for it, or it just continued using the Win 8 drivers I'd installed previously.
     
    I just did an upgrade from 8.1 - 10 and it worked without any tweaking...  Not sure if a clean install of Win 10, would have the same results.
     
    Edit: Just checked, and the version I have working is the one dated 11/9/2012, so looks like the old win7/8 driver works in 10.
    post edited by MackTheKnight - 2015/07/31 21:53:21
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    Re: FA66 Drivers? 2015/08/04 02:59:06 (permalink)
    I did the upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 yesterday. Pretty painless. My SPS -66 didn't work straight off the bat so I tried the windows 8 drivers and they seem to work perfectly. X3 and all my plugins appear to be ok too. Well done Microsoft.
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    Re: FA66 Drivers? 2015/08/08 22:01:42 (permalink)
    Working fine here, but the update on Wednesday messed up the drivers. I did a system restore and all was fine.
     
    Has anybody noticed a significant lower latency with the FA66 in Sonar?  I didn't have a problem until around X3, but it was irritating.
     
    This is very interesting (but long). Prinicpal MS Program Manager Pete Brown discusses many things, but he specifically mentions Roland & Steinberg taking a "wait & see" approach to 10.  He doesn't mention CW (because they did work with MS) but speaks extensively about where WDM is compared to ASIO.
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHaz3p_H8iM
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    Re: FA66 Drivers? 2015/08/08 22:06:35 (permalink)
    Noel's comments about latency and ASIO drivers in Win10 http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3269036
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    Re: FA66 Drivers? 2015/11/28 15:19:43 (permalink)
    Just went through this myself on a new Windows 10 install.
     
    The Roland posted Cakewalk FA-66 drivers didn't appear to work.  I chose those because they had listed Windows 10.
    http://www.roland.com/support/by_product/fa-66/updates_drivers/6164
     
    I retried with the Cakewalk SPS-66 Windows 8 ones which worked without a problem.
    http://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Download/HwDrivers/SPS-66
     
    Just mentioning in case anyone else goes down the same path.
    post edited by Keith Albright [Cakewalk] - 2015/11/28 15:31:15

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