mercredi 28 juin 2017

Roland SP-555 drivers for Windows 10 64bits


I bought recently a Roland  SP 555 SAMPLER.   I like this specific model, because it has a "loop capture" feature making sampling live more easy.  But guess what ?  DRIVERS ARE NOT WORKING UNDER WINDOWS 10.

Why do I need drivers you think ?  THE SP 555 can be used as a sound card with a specific USB driver, and it works with ASIO also.  So when  you play a sound file on your computer, you can sample directly via USB, without degrading the quality of the sound.  On the other hand, it is more usefull than filling the CF card in "blind" mode.
+ the USB can be also used as MIDI IN/OUT.
+ updates  need USB MIDI

Spending one hour to test all drivers versions, WIN7, WIN7 64bits, VISTA, XP, WIN8,...nothing worked.  The SP 555 was here in the device manager, but with the infamous question mark...

So I spent one more hour to modify the .INF files of the WIN7 64 bits version, disabled the driver protection mode of WIN10, and everything is now working like a charm !!!

- SP-555 is recognized by Windows
- The SP-555 is seen as a sound card
- I can use the windows mixer to set the default output to SP 555
- MIDI IN and OUT is perfectly working with USB : I did the update to 1.4 version

Procedure to install drivers on Windows 10 - 64 bits:
  • Turn OFF SP-555 and connect it with a USB cable to your computer
  • Open a CMD window in admin mode and accept the warning from Windows (type CMD on the search bar and use the right click to launch in administrator mode)
  • Give the following 2 commands:
    bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
    bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON
  • Reboot your computer
  • Turn on SP-555 and open device manager and look for SP-555 "unknown device"
  • Download drivers modified by me HERE
    (ignore the error message if you have one and click on Download)
  • Unzip files with 7ZIP in a directory of your choice
  • On the device manager, on SP-555 device,  right-click->properties->driver->update->don't search->have disk and goto folder where you extracted the driver. Ignore the warnings in RED and install.
  • Return to the initial state of signed drivers by opening again a "cmd" as admins and give the following 2 commands:
    bcdedit -set loadoptions ENABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
    bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING OFF
  • Reboot the system
    Done !

40 commentaires:

  1. Have error message when trying to modify driver through your files....can y0u help??

    "the hash for the file is not present in the specified catalog file"

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    1. Did you read the post ? You MUST deactivate the integrity checks.

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  2. Thanks a lot man! It worked like a charm
    Do you have any idea on how to install the sp555 drivers in OS Sierra?

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  3. hola quien tiene la actualizacion del sp 555 1.03 porfa la necesito DJMENOR74@HOTMAIL.COM

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    1. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3PzgxleWwMIaU9TVWxfYjJabXc?usp=sharing

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  4. You´re SupadupaGodMaster!
    Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! :))))

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  5. Hi, does this solution work for Windows 8.1? Any help is well appreciated.

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    1. I suppose YES. Try and give us a feedback.

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    2. any feedback about windows 8.1 please??

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  6. Thank you for your work, Win10 now recognizes and uses the SP555!
    However, the input sound level is very low - the mic works fine, sound is perfect through 555's headphone output, windows levels are put to 100%, but the signal is barely audible (knocking on the mic causes only 1 bar signal on windows input level meter).
    Can you help me with this?

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    1. Hi. hard to diagnose...Check windows mixer. Sometimes you can adjust input between line level and mic level, plug the mic directly on the SP555.

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    2. Had the same issue as Tibor Pongracz. Was able to get my PC running Windows 10 to recognizes the sp 555 but the volume was really low. Are others experiencing the same? I've been troubleshooting by checking the manage audio devices control panel but haven't found a fix..

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    3. Try to install the last audio driver...It was perfectly working for me with an USB audio card (MOTU).

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  7. I wish there was a solution for OSX Sierra

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  8. Thank you very much! Works 100% :-)

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  9. I have the same problem .. input level are very low when I rec through my daw ! Anybody did find a way to fix this ?

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  10. Can anyone share a link to modified drivers (for Windows 10)?
    The ones above are not working.

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  11. it works. You must click on the download button (the blue one).

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  12. C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING On
    An error has occurred setting the element data.
    The value is protected by Secure Boot policy and cannot be modified or deleted.

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  13. Like other guy, on command: "bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON" I read:
    Error setting element data.
    The value is protected by secure boot policies and cannot be changed or deleted

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    1. you need to disable this Boot Secure in BIOS! it's helped me & commutation sp with notebook start to work

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    2. and how exactly does one do this?

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  14. hi

    before to do you litle program to instal driver SP555 for W10 do i have to instal the roland driver SP555 for W7? or no needed?

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  15. thats find i didi it whitout and it works perfectly thanks man you are a crack

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  16. Hi, can you use it for Roland sp-404 og?

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  17. Works fine, icredible, Thx a lot!

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  18. This really is a life saver man thank you. I'd like to know how did you manage to that? If it can be done I'd like to rey and make the same for the macos version.

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  19. Important! Disable secure boot on URFI config. That worked for me, then I followed the amazing instructions of this great post. Bests

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  20. gracias por tu aportaje y tu ieda trabaja expectacular100%

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  21. thank you very much! I'm using my SP-555 in conjunction with Ableton 10 on a Windows 10 Computer. After about 2 minutes of working with the SP-555 without problems, a little crackle starts to occur which gets louder and louder over time rendering ableton + SP-555 completely useless. once i turn off the SP-555, the crackling stops and everything works fine. do you have any idea why that happens?

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    1. ok found the solution. for anyone who has the same problem and you''re using ASIO4All, just set the kernel buffer of your SP-555 to 4. that did the job for me. now everything works like a charm

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  22. Working August 2021/ windows 10 /ableton live

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  23. it doesn't work for me, when I try to install the driver i've got an error and it says that the driver isn't complete or is falsified.

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  24. thanks bro. do u know any site where i can find ableton?

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  25. I followed the instructions and I could install the drivers. the midi functions work great. however the sound of the Sp 555 is super bitcrushed and basically unusable. when i check through headphone outputs it sounds perfectly fine, so it has to be some type of driver issue. I've reinstalled them but still no success. Has anyone had the same problem and knows a solution?

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