I have a fix for the shutdown problem.  I am using RPC-1 card on my Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit PCs.  Both work very well except the PCs hang during shutdown.  I found this fix on the web.

There are 2 Windows services that is causing the problem.  Need to force the 2 services to stop before shutdown using the following batch file.

1) Create a batch file named "AudioStop.bat" using a text editor (notepad will work)
2) Right Click on newly created .bat file >"edit" and enter following 2 lines: 

net stop "Audiosrv" 
net stop "AudioEndpointBuilder" 

3) Save file as "AudioStop.bat" in directory c:\ProgramData\
4) Open "run" from start menu and enter "gpedit.msc" (without quotes) and hit "OK" 
5) Now navigate on left pane of window  "Computer Configuration" >  "Windows Settings" > "Scripts (Startup/Shutdown)"
6) On right pane of window, double click on "Shutdown" 
7) From window that opens, Click "Add" then browse  to where you saved "AudioStop.bat" earlier and double click on it 
8) Hit "Apply"  and close. 

You are done    Window7 will now Automatically stop the Audio services when Shutting Down or Restarting allowing system to complete the process.

I was thrilled to pieces when i found out I can still use my Edirol DA2496 with the roland card :D

So I went out and bought myself a copy of windows 7.

All was awesome until I came to shutdown and it didn't. So 'no worries' I thought, just follow the instructions above.

But no.

I got Windows 7 Home Premium Didn't I, which doesn't come with GPEdit. I'm far from impressed.

So, does anyone know a work around without using GPedit?

You can check the ROM version on the card itself. On my card it has 2 Eproms. One is a B revision ROM and the other is an A revision. But, it seems to work okay?

What are the main defective things that I can check?

I'll try the script tonight as I am having the hang on shutdown problem as well.

I'm new to this forum, and thank God I found this thread.
I was pushed to upgrade Windows, since Premiere Pro C.S. 5 only runs on a 64 bit system.
I thought my trusted Edirol DA-2496 was useless until 10 minutes ago and I need this card for audio editing (Nuendo) on my video production.
My DAW is based on a old AMD Athlon X64 4400, Nforce4 chipset and the O.S. is Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
So far so good (I'll check later for the shutdown issue), but the MIDI port is not available.
Does anyone know if there's a solution for that? Any help would be higly appreciated.
Thanks again, and sorry for my english ... I am from Italy.

The RPC-1 cards can't send MIDI in 64-bit. That's just how it is AFAIK.

The script above didn't work on my system as I have a Creative card as well. I created 2 batch files to disable the RPC-1 via command on boot/shutdown. I had to grab a amd64 devcon.exe from the MS Win7 Driver SDK as it isn't on their site. ia64 and x86 are available on the Microsoft site though.

I'll try to give you guys a write up later this week on what I personally did.

Thanks for sharing your experiences Seth.
I am currently having some trouble (pops) with Cubse 5, but I do believe that this particular issue is related to the fact that my system need to be formatted.
The script works just fine for me.
Thanks again.

I am also on Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate, can't get the driver to work... I see the RPC-1 under my device manager and it says it needs a driver but when I try to install the driver listed here I point it to the folder I unzipped with the contents and it says it can't find a suitable driver. I am at a loss as to why it works for you guys and not me.. I so want to use my DA-2496!!!
Sigh...

Rylan


I am also on Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate, can't get the driver to work... I see the RPC-1 under my device manager and it says it needs a driver but when I try to install the driver listed here I point it to the folder I unzipped with the contents and it says it can't find a suitable driver. I am at a loss as to why it works for you guys and not me.. I so want to use my DA-2496!!!
Sigh...

These drivers will only work with the Roland RPC-1 boards. They will not work with the Edirol DA-2496 card.

I just used the DA2496 Rack Units with the RPC-1 Card.

Oops! My mistake, I am looking at my Edirol DA-PCI card and it looks quite similar to the RPC-1, I was mixed up and thought I had an RPC-1 silly me no wonder it didn't work.


So if I get an RPC-1 I can use my da-2496 with my 64 bit windows 7? If that's the case I will start looking for one for sale, seems like it won't be easy though.

I assume this driver includes some sort of mixer and digital patchbay? Or will it just show up under my Windows mixer? Also were you able to get the full 8x8 at 24/96? Sorry to ask so many questions, I just really love my Edirol and want to keep using it.

Thank you to everyone here, this thread might be saving me from having to buy a new interface, I really hope!

I'm also going to try calling M-Audio as someone else had done to ask if they might have any ideas for me to use their drivers for my DA-PCI. Probably not though.

I have two RPC-1 cards running on win7 x64.  I'm only able to use the WDM driver.  Is anyone using the ASIO driver? If so, any suggestions on how to get it to work on my system?