Strange Driver issue for Roland Studio-Captures

Hope this is what you need    Dan
 
http://www.roland.com/sup...updates_drivers/350780

Sorry. I saw the download and thought the download was an alternate method og getting the drivers. I downloaded the same file a few month ago thinking I had a backup copy of the drivers. I just unzipped it and sure enough it is just a pdf file. I never really checked the file size. There must be some way to get a copy of drivers.

Let us know if you have any luck getting the drivers.  I had the same question.  Kind of crazy that the driver is only available through Windows Update.   Not surprising though, since Roland has cleared out much of their staff in the past couple years.   

Searched and did not find ANYTHING that resembled a downloadable driver. All info says you have to get it thru the Windows Update. That is rather tedious when you have to uninstall, clean the registry, get online (what happens if you aren't anywhere close to the internet connection?), let Windows Update download and install, then re-setup the driver, etc., etc.,!
I did find that restore would rollback and the studio-captures came back online but that means having to create a restore point everytime you work! God, help us!
I still don't have an answer on why the other audio programs still function and SPLAT does not recognize them until you restore or reinstall from scratch! There has to be an answer to this somewhere.

Hi there
got a studio capture and tried yesterday for the first time, the problem is that i don't want automatic updates and drivers turned on, I usually turn everything off after instaling windows or sometimes do the first updates and then if computer is running ok turn everything off.
so i had to turn on the updates for a few minutes, went to device manager and there it was the studio capture with exclamation icon, right click on that and update driver (choose find automatic...), and everything went good.
but as I said before don't want automatic updates from windows and like you I want that driver too. Why Roland is hiding the driver from us??

another thing is, I had a zoom r24 as an audio interface and was great too, when I was using as a standalone recorder the sound was not so good, but as an audio interface it was great.
so yesterday i was trying the studio capture and while not connected to the computer the sound was not so good, when i listen through phones and comparing connecting directly to my keyboard the sound is nothing close, but using as an audio interface when i start Reason daw, the sound is great too, why this big difference?? it's a limitation to not use as standalone mixer?
thank you and cheers :)

I think I will ask for drivers too, if we all do the same it will be easier.
but i saw somewhere that this can work as a "standalone something", don't remeber and can't find it.
but even plugged into my computer the sound work i can listen sound on youtube and whatever I want through the interface but the sound just shines when I create an audio track in whatever daw, why the sound is not so good before I launch the music software? am I doing something wrong?

Fireberd, are you talking about the .inf hack? I forgot how to locate the .inf file! I actually printed out the process from the thread you speak of but I became leary about doing that when someone else posted that they tried that hack and it did not work!
I will take another read and see if I want to tackle that. If you remember we bumped in to each other in that thread. Please, keep an eye out here in case I need help.  I have the windows 8 driver installer backed up on my secondary drive.
Do I hack the driver before the install or after? And please explain where the .inf is located! Thanks!

slartabartfast, I don't have Internet Explorer anymore. !0 changed that to Microsoft Edge! Any way, I am looking for the Studio-Capture driver, not the Duo.
I did the hack once I found the correct place to hack. The old thread keeps talking about a .INF file. That file name is now System Information file! Once I opened it there was no problem doing the hack! I did print out the tip on how to able and disable the signature before installing.
I have no idea if it works. Everything is running so good now I will wait until, God forbid, I lose my drivers again. I hope it is a long time before I have to find out but I am really curious now!

Roland does not make it easy........I use the Chrome Browser, so I can't access that Microsoft page.  I'm on Windows 10, which has Microsoft's new Edge browser installed, and even it won't access the page.  So to open that page, I have to install Microsoft IE.   Crazy.
 
 

slartabartfast

Sidroe
Searched and did not find ANYTHING that resembled a downloadable driver. All info says you have to get it thru the Windows Update. That is rather tedious when you have to uninstall, clean the registry, get online (what happens if you aren't anywhere close to the internet connection?), let Windows Update download and install, then re-setup the driver, etc., etc.,!
 

Did you search here?
https://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=roland%20studio-capture
 
Logged in to an account with administrator group membership using only Internet Explorer as your browser and following these instructions?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/323166
 
You will get a .cab file in your shopping basket to download but the instructions tell you how to unpack it. 
 

Sidroe
slartabartfast, I don't have Internet Explorer anymore. !0 changed that to Microsoft Edge! Any way, I am looking for the Studio-Capture driver, not the Duo.
I did the hack once I found the correct place to hack. The old thread keeps talking about a .INF file. That file name is now System Information file! Once I opened it there was no problem doing the hack! I did print out the tip on how to able and disable the signature before installing.
I have no idea if it works. Everything is running so good now I will wait until, God forbid, I lose my drivers again. I hope it is a long time before I have to find out but I am really curious now!

Stuido Capture is there. 
 
 TitleProductsClassificationLast UpdatedVersionSize Roland -
Other hardware - STUDIO-CAPTURE EXPWindows 10 and later driversDrivers (Sound)7/21/20151.0.0.02.4 MB 2495644 Roland - Other hardware - STUDIO-CAPTUREWindows 10 and later driversDrivers (Sound)7/21/20151.0.0.02.4 MB 2495644 Roland -
Other hardware - STUDIO-CAPTURE EXPWindows 10 and later driversDrivers (Sound)7/21/20151.0.0.02.1 MB 2193344 Roland - Other hardware - STUDIO-CAPTUREWindows 10 and later driversDrivers (Sound)7/21/20151.0.0.02.1 MB 2193344


 
scook is correct about IE in Win 10
http://www.windowscentral.com/how-find-internet-explorer-windows-10-if-you-really-need-it
 

Sidroe
AND THE WINNER IS SLARTABARTFAST!!!!! You, my man, RULE! LOL!
I had no idea that Internet Explorer was hiding in Windows 10! I followed your instructions. I had to let it install the Windows Update Catalog and after doing so, up popped on the screen the drivers I have been chasing ever since 10 was installed!
Many thanks to you and I hope that someday I can repay the favor. This needs to be a sticky at the head of the forum. I know that many of us will benefit from this fix. Thanks, again.

Hi there

so, can you share it with us? (the driver)
thank you

Looks like you have to "stage" the driver and pretend you are running Windows Update:
 
Installing drivers

• Open a command prompt from the Start menu.
• To extract the driver files, type the following command at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:expand <CAB FILE NAME> -F:* <DESTINATION>
• To stage the driver for plug and play installation or for the Add Printer Wizard, use PnPutil as described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:937793 The staging and the installation of driver packages by using the PnP Utility (Pnputil.exe) in Windows Vista
  Note To install a cross-architecture print driver, you must already have installed the local architecture driver, and you will still need the cross-architecture copy of Ntprint.inf from another system. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:952065 You cannot install third-party printer drivers for cross-architecture support in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008
  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/323166
   
  I'm having my own issues with my UA 25-EX. Windows Update won't grab a Win 10 driver on my newer DAW yet on my old DAW there are no issues. To do the Win 10 upgrade from Win 7 I have to unplug my cd drive. Go figure.
  

Would appreciate any info if you can get this to work (or not work).

Many devices, today, ONLY have the Windows "plug and play" option for drivers - not just Roland.  This is really better, in Roland's case, as they kept issuing drivers for specific OS's rather than a general driver that will work on multiple OS's.  The drivers were actually the same just coded for a specific OS.
 
There is a method, and its been referenced on this thread about how to modify (hack) the Win 8 drivers so they will work on Win 10, if you must have a physical driver.
 
Otherwise return the unit, since you still have the option, and find something that satisfies your specific requirement.

I had no problem extracting the cab files! You simply right click and extract here. There is no installer! Just the driver files themselves. That was the problem. As I said, Fireberd and a couple of others were nice enough to come thru with a hack that allows us to set the 8.1 driver to install as a 10 driver. I have done the hack but have not had an occasion yet to try it out. I will keep you advised if that happens. Otherwise, I am firing off another request to Roland to post these drivers. I'm sure they are going to say that Microsoft is probably responsible for those drivers now and we'll play the shift the blame game! Oh, well. Ain't technology fun, students!

@Sidroe, after the "extract here" for the drivers did you do anything? Did you have to do "Update Driver" and point that where the driver was extracted to or did Win 10 find the driver with no other action on your part after you extracted?
 
These hacks shouldn't be necessary.