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Horus Release Notes

HORUS & HAPI FIRMWARE

Make sure that you are running the latest certified firmware:

http://www.merging.com/products/horus/downloads

Verify your Horus or Hapi firmware version by going to the Horus or Hapi Setup menu and open the

System info page to verify the firmware version installed.

Refer to the Horus or Hapi User Manual Firmware Update section in order to proceed with a Firmware

update.

Note: There are two types of Horus & Hapi updates possible. Either the Horus/Hapi Firmware update

(frequent releases) or the Maintenance Mode update (un-frequent releases but mandatory for some

firmware).

CURRENT LIMITATIONS (Firmware)

Latest Firmware limitations:

 RAVENNA redundancy is not implemented

 MIDI/RS422/BiPhase/GPIO not implemented

 No VU meters in DSD (see User Manual)

 No Headphone gain control in DSD

The limitation list above will be progressively reduced with firmware updates.

Notes:

- Supported sync: RAVENNA (PTP slave), Wordclock, Video sync, AES input, MADI input and

ADAT/SPDIF* (*Hapi only)

- Sync Source known issue: LTC input is accurate up to 10x nominal speed (applies to early

Horus production only)

FIRMWARE UPDATES HISTORY

Fixed in Firmware version 24543:

No fix specific to with 24394. Refer to listing below for fix history details

Fixed in Firmware version 24394:

*To upgrade to this firmware version and the ones above it is mandatory to have updated your

Maintenance Mode to v30

 Improved PreAmps control in remote Midi with ProTools

Warning: AD modules settings not recalled at project opening. We recommend within

ProTools SetUp>Peripheral>PreAmps Settings that you enable the “Retain Current Settings”

option

 Improvement to avoid Horus/Hapi from not starting up correctly

 Fixed: Hapi crash when an output module is routed to non present input module

Fixed in Firmware version 24114:

*To upgrade to this firmware version and the ones above it is mandatory to have updated your

Maintenance Mode to v29

 Fixed: PreAmps, one channel offset in the VU meters display

 Fixed. PreAmps control in remote Midi now working again from ProTools.

Warning: AD modules settings not recalled at project opening. We recommend within

ProTools SetUp>Peripheral>PreAmps Settings that you enable the “Retain Current

Settings” option

 Fixed: Web Access empty GUI if first module is not an AD

 Fixed. Muted or duplicated signal on MADI output, when routed to RAVENNA, at more than 1

 Fixed. MADI output muted