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

I had the same problem on the Pre-release...
and it probably WON'T work until Roland releases Win 8 drivers..

I uninstalled and wen't back to Win 7
I'll do Win 8 when the Quad drivers are released

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...

Thanks for the heads up on this. I shall now wait, as is mentioned, for the windows 8 drivers from Roland.

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

Here's a link to my thread over in the V-Studio forum. As I have also stated, I don't mind waiting. I'd just like to know if drivers are planned. So far no one from Roland or Cakewalk has stated that Windows 8 drivers will be even be released. Unfortunately, with Roland's notoriously conservative driver support history, I don't feel that its something that we hardware owners can automatically assume.

-e.B

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

Thanks TK for the Win 8 hack for QuadCapture! The .INF edit is quite simple enough after looking thru it. Now, I can't wait until my QuadCapture comes in next week. Got Win764 on desktop PC & Win 864 on laptop. Will verify the results once it comes in

Thanks again for the post!

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.

Did you try installing the Octa-Capture in a Win 7 compatibility mode?  

I had serveral different Win 8 pre-release versions installed and had problems with several devices, including an Epson Artisan All in One that had worked with Win 7 64 bit  (I didn't try my Octa-Capture) but installing them in a compatibility mode worked.

But, I'm not concerned right now.  Based on the pre-release versions I'm not going to upgrade to Win 8.