Roland Quadcapture Driver Mac M1 Extra: Quality

Getting the Roland Quad-Capture (UA-55) to work on an M1 Mac is challenging because Roland officially states that Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3 chips) is not supported

Sample Rate: For the best balance of quality and CPU load, set your hardware and DAW to 48kHz or 96kHz. roland quadcapture driver mac m1 extra quality

• The Problem: The hardware drivers for the Quad-Capture are written for Intel architecture.
• The Solution: macOS uses Rosetta 2 to translate these Intel instructions for the Apple Silicon processor.

1. The Sample Rate Lock

To avoid the dreaded M1 "click of death": Getting the Roland Quad-Capture (UA-55) to work on

Future Directions:

If you see the message "Driver Not Loaded" persistently, you must allow the system extension in Recovery Mode: The Problem: The hardware drivers for the Quad-Capture

Since there is no native Silicon driver, any attempt relies on the Intel driver running via Apple's Rosetta 2 translation layer. latest macOS 11/12 driver (Ver. 1.5.6) from the official Roland Support site. Security Settings