I just installed Windows 8 32-bit on my DAW machine and went to install the Windows 7 Juno-G driver on it. Unfortunately the installer would not allow installation on Windows 8 citing an incorrect OS version. Since the driver model from Windows 7 to Windows 8 has not changed, I figured it should work and it was just the installer that was preventing installation.
Fortunately the actual drivers are uncompressed in the driver download. I first tried installing the driver by right clicking the .INF file (Files\RDIF1063.INF for the Windows 7 64-bit driver) and selecting install and it claimed to work, but the driver was not actually installed. So I had a look at the contents of the .INF file and saw the lines below:
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;;-- From the Win 7 64-bit driver .INF file --
[Roland.NTamd64.6.1]
;; Windows7
%RDID0063DeviceDesc%=RDID0063Install, USB\VID_0582&PID_00A6 ; JUNO-G
[Roland.NTamd64.6.2]
;; not supported
;;-- From the Win 7 32-bit driver .INF file --
[Roland.NTx86.6.1]
;; Windows7
%RDID0063DeviceDesc%=RDID0063Install, USB\VID_0582&PID_00A6 ; JUNO-G
[Roland.NTx86.6.2]
;; not supported
NTx86 = 32-bit Windows
NTamd64 = 64-bit Windows.
6.1 = Windows 7
6.2 = Windows 8
So, Roland.NTx86.6.2 refers to Windows 8 32-bit
So, I copied the line from the Windows 7 section to the Windows 8 section. After that the lines looked like this:
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;;-- From the Win 7 64-bit driver .INF file --
[Roland.NTamd64.6.1]
;; Windows7
%RDID0063DeviceDesc%=RDID0063Install, USB\VID_0582&PID_00A6 ; JUNO-G
[Roland.NTamd64.6.2]
;; Windows 8
%RDID0063DeviceDesc%=RDID0063Install, USB\VID_0582&PID_00A6 ; JUNO-G
;;-- From the Win 7 32-bit driver .INF file --
[Roland.NTx86.6.1]
;; Windows7
%RDID0063DeviceDesc%=RDID0063Install, USB\VID_0582&PID_00A6 ; JUNO-G
[Roland.NTx86.6.2]
;; Windows8
%RDID0063DeviceDesc%=RDID0063Install, USB\VID_0582&PID_00A6 ; JUNO-G
Looking in Device Manager, I saw that the JUNO-G was no longer an unrecognized device. So I tested it with Sonar X1 and it worked!
I haven't tried to install the editor and librarian yet.
Hope this helps!
Bill