I am using a trial version of Audirvana Studio as I want to use the Dirac plugin to send to an Sonore optical Rendu via uPnP. However I cannot get it to work. The music is played but the Dirac plugin has no effect.
I have tried on Windows and Mac both with the same result.
If I connect the PC/Mac directly to the DAC by USB the Dirac plugin does work.
I have also tried sending the output to HQPlayer embedded on a separate computer via uPnP and that is the same. The music is played but the Dirac plugin does not work.
I have looked on this forum and noticed people had similar problems and resolved it by enabling ‘Do not use RAW PCM’ and/or adding upsampling. Neither of these help.
Has anyone managed to get the Dirac plugin to work when sending the output to a UPnP device? I have just downloaded all of the latest updates, so I cannot solve it with a software update
Other than that it works nicely. Thanks from a frustrated potential user.
I have done a bit more searching and it looks like the same problem that @Alexandros_Petrakis is having. If it is, will the feature be added soon? My trial ends soon and I don’t want to subscribe if I cannot use Dirac and UPnP as it is the main reason for trying Audirvana.
It’s something we will add in the software but we can’t tell you when it will be ready as we focused on last.fm integration for the 2.1. I guarantee you it’s on our list but you will need to wait a bit and when it will be available, you will see it in the change log of the app.
From my understanding Audirvana supports uPnP and VST3 plugins, but not both at the same time! I don’t know if they will add this feature but I will probably buy a Roon lifetime subscription instead before it goes up at the end of the year.
The ability to use Dirac as a plugin was one of the advantages that Audirvana has over Roon, but since its doesn’t work with uPnP its of no use to me
I made also a free subscription to Roon.
It’s amazing how fast it is over upnp.
Night and day.
With Audirvāna and Mac mini it takes about 9 to 11 seconds to play the song from the time I choose it.
With Roon that works immediately.
Also the remote on iOS is night and day.
I am using a very similar setup to you. Mac mini m1 to Sonore optical rendu by upnp > chord Dave. I have not experienced any delay with Audirvana, it is instant just like Roon. Not sure why you are experiencing a 10 second delay.
I guess it’s my streamer.
I have ifi’s streamer.
While in Roon it’s very responsive, in Audirvāna when I use upnp it’s so slow I have to wait about 10 sec. to start a song I clic.
and until you don’t see it in the change log, it won’t change 
