Windows 8 64bit + Roland Quad Capture

Hey!

Since I work at a large computer company I just received the retail version of Windows 8 Enterprise 64 bit.

Wanted to try how my Roland Quad Capture and Sonar X1 producer worked under Windows 8 so I took a separate SSD drive and installed Win8 on it.

I've been trying for a couple of hours to get the Roland Quad Capture to work without luck. So if anyone of you are concidering doing the same. Save yourselves the trouble and wait for proper drivers to come out.
The driver says that it's for the wrong operating system. But if you go into compabiltymode and set it to Win7 it installs fine. When you get to the part where it wants you to connect the USB cable nothing happends. No leds is lit on the unit. Theres no sign of life at all and the installation wont procede.

I've tried with the following hardware:

Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E
CPU: Intel Core i7 970
Memory: 12Gb

Just for your information. Let me know if you want to know anything else.

PS
No need for a Windows 8 discussion. I'm just posting this for the people with the Quad who might be interested in upgrading. A qualified guess is that the drivers dont work for the other Roland cards either such as the Octa. Hopefully drivers will be fine at the release to comsumers.

Cheerz!
/M

Anyone found a beta driver for Windows 8?

Got Quad-Capture to work under Win8 x64 by editing the .inf file for the Win7 driver and disabling driver signing in Win8. But bit of a hassle rebooting to disable driver signing each time...

Not good news there. Hopefully Roland will be on the ball when Win 8 is officially released.

tk_post@hotmail.com


Anyone found a beta driver for Windows 8?

Got Quad-Capture to work under Win8 x64 by editing the .inf file for the Win7 driver and disabling driver signing in Win8. But bit of a hassle rebooting to disable driver signing each time...

AFAIK, Roland doesn't usually release public beta drivers. Care to share a few more details about the .inf editing process though? 


Thanks,
-e.B

I had a similar issue with my Edirol UA 101 (which is also a Roland product). Win 8 would not take the Win 7 driver. Just for the heck of it I downloaded the Vista driver and ran the installer in compatibility mode and it actually worked fine.

My problem with Win 8 is that my Win 7 system drive is a SATA 3 SSD, but when testing Win 8 I didn't have enough space on the SSD to do a second partition and din't want to mess with my Win 7 install. Long story short I'm testing Win 8 on a regular SATA drive, trying to compare that to Win 7 on an SSD ,  the OS on an SSD is just faster. So I'm not really able to see any performance benefits as of yet with Win 8.

Got the QuadCapture in today. Installed it under Windows 8 64Bit after disabling driver signing and restart.  Thanks for the 'hack' TK! It works perfectly!!!!! 

I emailed Roland a little while ago about Win8 drivers for my A-300 Pro and UA-25 EX.  They said that the new drivers would be release when Win8 was released.

te rongo

tk_post@hotmail.com


Anyone found a beta driver for Windows 8?

Got Quad-Capture to work under Win8 x64 by editing the .inf file for the Win7 driver and disabling driver signing in Win8. But bit of a hassle rebooting to disable driver signing each time...

Hi!  I miss my quad! working with the Sonuus i2m as I couldn't get this working.  Could you please provide the hack for me?  thanks.

Hi! I miss my quad! working with the Sonuus i2m as I couldn't get this working. Could you please provide the hack for me? thanks.

 
 
I have done this with UA-1G driver and even went so far as to re-sign it so I could use it without the special reboot each time.  I did not detail the signing process here but did show what I found the INF that excluded Windows 8.
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2668835

Brandon Ryan [Roland
]

Official Windows 8 drivers were released by Roland today. Timely eh?  

Not if you have a VS-700 ... unless I'm missing something in the links.

Cheers,

jayson

e.Blue

tk_post@hotmail.com


Anyone found a beta driver for Windows 8?

Got Quad-Capture to work under Win8 x64 by editing the .inf file for the Win7 driver and disabling driver signing in Win8. But bit of a hassle rebooting to disable driver signing each time...

AFAIK, Roland doesn't usually release public beta drivers. Care to share a few more details about the .inf editing process though? 


Thanks,
-e.B

Here's a couple of links describing the process
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2012/08/06/getting-older-drivers-to-work-in-windows-8/
http://forum.image-line.com/viewtopic.php?p=704187

Hope that helps

I posted this in the hardware section, but with this Octa-Capture thread and the posting of the updated drivers, I'm also posting here.  Along with Win 8 support, the 1.5.1 drivers have been updated for Win 7, which I have. 


My hardware section post:
I downloaded the latest 1.5.1 driver for the Octa-Capture and installed it. I used it for the first time this morning on some previously recorded material in Sonar. I was getting some distortion on the singer that seemed to be caused by the bass track, that I never had before. The Vocal track without the bass track was OK, the bass track by itself is OK, but with the two there was distortion (intermodulation distortion).

I tried several things and then remembered that I had upgraded the Octa-Capture driver. I uninstalled the 1.5.1 driver, restarted the PC and then installed the 1.5.0 driver. Loaded the same Sonar project and no more distortion, "intermodulation distortion" or low frequency distortion - what it sounded like.

I haven't tried reloading the 1.5.1 drivers (which I will do at some point) to see if it is the driver
 
UPDATE: Reloading the drivers has fixed the problem.  If anyone else runs into the "distortion" problem with the 1.5.1 drivers, uninstall and reinstall, and if it worked like mine it will fix it.