Merging Technologies has announced an entirely new Merging Audio Device (also referred to as MAD) for Windows computers.
MAD is designed to offer significant improvements to the free of charge version and introduces an additional infrastructure package for broadcasters wanting the more advanced features.
The ASIO driver supplied with Merging interfaces was beginning to show its age and lacked some key features, and so the first of the major enhancements is a multi-ASIO capability that allows different applications to run simultaneously sharing ASIO inputs and outputs.
Additionally, internal bridging allows channels to be defined to send audio between applications concurrently using MAD.