Hey, no distortion with convolution at 768kHz! Directly connected with USB, same with realtime on or off. Nice!
(2.99.19)
Le bug du rétrécissement de la fenêtre de l’app avec les onglets “Ajouts récents” et “CD” est tjrs là
Can or will Audirvana Studio 3.0 be able to receive a Dolby Atmos input from Tidal and downmix to 5.1 without loosing the overhead content?
I presume you have “Mute during sample-rate change” enabled and you have added some additional latency when changing sample-rates?
From the Dolby Professional Support information site linked below, where the different 5.1 down-mix rendering scenarios are described…
How do the 5.1 and Stereo downmix settings work?
5.1 downmix settings:
This selection is used for monitoring and also written to the .atmos file set as metadata and applied during encoding to Dolby Digital Plus JOC.
This selection can be independently set for monitoring/metadata and re-renders. Trims values are applied to the 5.1 downmixes.
Hi everyone, following 2026-02-17T23:00:00Z update, here is the changelog for the Windows,macOS, and Linux versions of Audirvāna Studio version 2.99.19 :
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Enhanced contextual menus
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Autoplay switch button in play queue view
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Gear button left of the tracks list header view to raise the columns setup menu
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Other minor fixes
Which plugins have you selected?
Hang Loose Convolver
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Ok, Mitch told me about this, I will need to review the video he made so Damien can understand what is going on.
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Hello,
In the album view, the “Last played” column is not updated immediately, but only when you leave the album view and then return to it.
Otherwise, I really like Audirvana 3 Beta.
Best regards,
Bastian
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For those of us using plugins, the VST / AU buffer size needs to be adjustable, including a setting for 8192. Most buffers on macOS stop at 4096, but this isn’t enough for very high resolution files.
Currently I can’t play four channel Quadio files that are 24/192, through a plugin, without constant dropouts and garbled audio.
No difference whatsoever with these settings or without. This makes sense, since the problem doesn’t occur between tracks, even when playing back tracks with different sample rates, but only on initial startup of Audirvana or starting the software again after an upsampling change (in my case, between upsampling to PCM and upsampling to DSD), when (1) latency is effectively infinite, and (2) in the case of initial startup, there has been no sample rate change.
I have reported this several times in this beta thread, along with a few screen shots of the AU process running wild, and no one seems to care…
I would suggest you turn off the “Use the new AU hosting” stuff…
How much RAM is allocated for playback pre-load memory versus your available System RAM?
Were you able to use this plug-in prior to the Beta release? Is the plug-in qualified by the developer for 192kHz playback?
Also, the same question that I ask Jud is an obvious point of focus…
How much RAM is allocated for playback pre-load memory versus your available System RAM?
Could this have something to do with the Quadio rips?
About 16 of 32GB, same as it has been for years using the official release without any problems.
The obvious next troubleshooting step would be to lower the pre-load memory allocation to about 4GB or less, in-order to reveal/verify whether or not the behavior persists under that conditional state.
Hi @dubharmonic. Out of interest, I have suffered this issue with several endpoints, most notably Devialet Phantom II 98 dB and KEF LS50 Wireless II to a greater or lesser extent. I sold the Phantom II and updated to a Phantom Ultimate pair due to the “Plays With Audirvana” status.
I did keep the KEF’s but have tended to feed them from a Chord Electronics 2Go/2Yu streamer bridge to negate the issue. However based on some manufacturer settings in the Phantom Ulitmate’s I am doing a trial of overriding the KEF “Plays With Audirvana” settings and turning ON the “Universal Gapless Playback Mode” despite the fact that the KEF’s support gapless playback natively. Early days in this test but for a day I have not had a repeat of tracks failing to be recorded as played.
Maybe worth a try if this is not enabled on your endpoint settings in AS?
Yep, the Hang Loose Convolver works perfectly fine in the previous version of Audirvana… And it can work somewhat in the current Beta… Audirvana seems to have fallen behind in keeping up with plugin specs…
Again, I run on a ~10 year old macBook i5, 8gb, without issue… I use 65536 and even 131072 FIR filters without issue…
And BTY, the Hang Loose Convolver performs perfectly within other hosting apps like Reaper and the Hang Loose Host which allows OS sound system wide DSP…
I can’t help but point out the conflict of interest here with competing convolvers, EQ and/or other plugin solutions… Why would a developer spend time fixing legacy plugin solutions verses fixing their own native convolver, EQ and other native Beta issues?
Somewhere in here, is the answer…
All I know is, at this stage, it is far easier to implement a multichannel virtualization plug-in like Waves Abbey Road Studio 3 or Waves NX, than building your own multichannel convolution IR… Multichannel file content is still very esoteric and limited in scope of genre and demographic appeal… I am from the San Francisco Bay Area, grew-up on the Peninsula in Mountain View and just entering my teens when the Pranksters spilled out onto the World at Stanford University… The Quadio content does not appeal to me today… I lived through the Quad days of discrete 4-track cassette 8-track formats… had one in my van and the Grunt Records products… never thought the Quadraphonic discs did much and were a waste of money… The Atmos, multichannel content is not very compelling as compared to 5.1 DSD surround product… I just would like to play my 5.1 SACD ISO content on my headphone system… If this HRTF virtualization can be implemented in the Audirvāna DSP engine, even if the DSD signal is decimated to 88.2kHz, so it can be routed through Abbey Road Studio 3 or Waves NX, and modulated to DSD again, my audiophile heart will feel satisfied…
I’ve had to kluge a system just so I can audition the 5.1 SACD content passed through my Focusrite Liquid 56 ADC at 24/96kHz, routed through Abbey Road Studio 3 running in Logic Pro, and out of the Focusrite via S/PDIF again to my reference DAC where it is up-sampled…
I’ve had my share of surround speaker arrays and I do have the matched-set to implement a surround array … Maybe someday I’ll return to that island… But for me these days, speaker playback is background music… Headphone playback is my reference…