Merging Technologies

There is a fork of the Merging driver which has been updated to compile cleanly on newer kernels which can be found here: https://github.com/bondagit/ravenna-alsa-lkm/tree/aes67-daemon I'm currently trying to find a stable configuration which this fork of the driver on an embedded device based on th...

To add an additional data point - I found running VAD on a 2021 16" M1 Max notebook paired with a USB-C based ethernet adaptor to be unreliable at seemingly any latency, buffer size, and sample rate. I was about to give up after trying multiple ethernet adaptors until I discovered the Sonnet Th...

I am not sure if there is any other way of determining which version of the driver is installed other than the lower right corner of the "Merging RAVENNA/AES67 Settings" preference panel - regardless I did notice that the 3.0.3 build of VAD still reported as 3.0.2 in the preference panel b...

Shortly after another piece of software with a kernel extension (macFUSE specifically) was installed a previously functioning VAD 3.x install under macOS 11.5.2 started failing (on an Intel mac). The symptom was that the MergingRAVENNAAudioDriver.kext would be ignored by the kernel on boot. After af...

This could very well be pilot error but I found the following behavior confusing and came to the conclusion that it might be bug, specifically: When powering on an Anubis+Music the color of the A, B, HP1, HP2 soft buttons does not reflect the stored mute state for those mixes/sends/cues. Steps to re...