Merging Technologies VAD Standard - Virtual Audio Device for Mac OS

The Merging Technologies RAVENNA/AES67 Virtual Audio Device (VAD) is intended for owners of any RAVENNA and/or AES67 device, who are on macOS. The VAD installer and documentation can be found here.

Owners of a Merging networked device (Anubis, Hapi or Horus, needs to be on the network) or a Neumann device (MT 48, needs to be on the network) get access to the additional features of the Premium version, without need for any additional key. Just having a Merging/Neumann device on the network will automatically enable the Premium mode for VAD (no need to purchase a VAD Standard or Premium key).

Owners of a non-Merging RAVENNA/AES67 networked device can purchase a key to activate VAD. There are two versions available: VAD Standard and VAD Premium.

The Merging Technologies VAD Premium RAVENNA/AES67 driver is Dolby Atmos Renderer v5 compliant, making it the most compact and cost efficient solution for creators.

Standard Features:

• The latency can be set to:
  • 1ms, 48 samples (AES67)
  • 4ms, 192 samples
  • 6ms, 288 samples
  • 10ms, 480 samples
  Note: effective latency depends on Application buffer size
• Numbers of inputs and outputs available:
  • 64 I/O @ 1fs (44.1kHz / 48kHz)
  Note: The number of I/Os could be less if the application does not support these numbers
• Supported sampling rates:
  • 44.1kHz / 48kHz only
• The Virtual Audio Device can be used as default Audio Device and System Device.