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Register Now for Dante AV Networking World in Orlando, June 16, 2015
For the fifth consecutive year, Audinate will be hosting the all-day Dante AV Networking World conference at InfoComm 2015. 

Date:   June 16, 2015   
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Time:   8:30am - 5:30pm   
Cost:   Free (lunch and hosted reception provided, registration required)   
Location:   Rosen Centre Hotel
9840 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819
Click to Register
https://www.audinate.com/about/news-activity/events/av-networking-world-orlando-fl-2015?


The free all-day event will feature presentations, training workshops and interactive panel discussions led by industry experts.

The event will also feature a major interoperability demonstration of Dante-enabled products from the industry's leading audio manufacturers, including AEQ, Attero Tech, Ashly, Atlas Sound, Audinate, Audio Technica, Bose, ClearOne, Extron, Focusrite/RedNet, IED, Lab.gruppen, Lake, Presonus, Shure, Sound Devices/Video Devices, Stewart Audio, Studio Technologies, Symetrix, TC Group, Williams Sound and Yamaha Commercial Audio.

The event will feature giveaways throughout the day, a sponsored lunch for all attendees and a hosted networking mixer at the end of the day.  Conference attendees will also earn 4 CTS RU credits.

Workshop Agenda

Industry Trends in Digital Audio Networking
Dante in House of Worship:  Willow Creek Community Church Case Study
Networking 101: Understanding Network Basics
Dante in Sports: Networking the American Airlines Arena for the Miami Heat
Dante in Retail:  National Retail Chain Case Study
Live Demonstration:  Building your First Dante Network
Dante in Broadcast:  Recent Advancements at Microsoft Production Studios
Dante in House of Worship:  Sojourn Church Case Study
Dante in Education:  University Case Study
A Glimpse into the Future of Dante

Elantric

With luck, before the decade is out we will get an affordable  guitar with Dante AVB, or Harman BSS Blu-Link  Ethernet Audio transport of each string via RJ-45 Ethercon connection

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https://www.prosoundnetwork.com/gear-and-technology/audinate-to-launch-avio-adapters-at-namm


Audinate to Launch AVIO Adapters at NAMM
Legacy analog, AES3 and USB audio devices can be incorporated into Dante networks.
PROSOUNDNETWORKJAN 19, 2018
Audinate Dante AVIO 2-channel analog input adapter


Anaheim, CA (January 19, 2018)—Audinate will introduce Dante AVIO, a family of endpoint adapters that enable audio professionals to connect legacy analog and digital audio equipment to Dante networks, at the 2018 NAMM Show.

The Dante AVIO series features six new adapters including line-in and line-out analog adapters, a bi-directional AES3/EBU adapter and a bi-directional stereo USB adapter. Each Dante AVIO adapter acts as a completely independent Dante network device.

"Audio networking has been growing rapidly, but we recognize there are still millions of legacy endpoint devices that could benefit from the flexibility and scalability Dante delivers," stated Lee Ellison, CEO of Audinate. "Our new line of Dante AVIO adapters enables live sound engineers, systems integrators and even home recording enthusiasts to easily integrate their audio equipment into a Dante network."

The Dante AVIO analog adapters are available as dedicated inputs or outputs with one or two channels of audio. Analog input adapters allow mixers, mic preamps, stage DIs and more to connect to a Dante audio network, while analog output adapters can be used for driving amplifiers, powered speakers or recorders. Long runs of noisy analog cable can be eliminated, and all signal routes are managed via Dante Controller software.

The Dante AVIO USB adapter connects any computer to a Dante audio network without additional software, providing class-compliant stereo input and output that can be used by any audio application. The Dante AVIO USB adapter may be passed between computers without altering networked audio connections.


The Dante AVIO AES3 adapter provides stereo input and output, allowing AES3-connected DSPs, mixers, compressors, preamps and more to be fully connected to any Dante network with no degradation of signal from extraneous D/A and A/D conversion.
https://audinate.com/products/devices/dante-avio
Audinate Group Limited • audinate.com


https://audinate.com/sites/default/files/datasheets/Dante-AVIO-Adapters-Datasheet_v0.7-Audinate-en.pdf

https://www.audinate.com/

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Dante Virtual Soundcard
PC, Mac: Meet Dante
Dante Virtual Soundcard working with a DAWDante Virtual Soundcard turns your computer into a Dante-powered workstation, seamlessly integrating your PC or Mac with Dante audio devices on your network. Instantly connect to record, process and playout using any audio application and any combination of Dante-enabled devices.

Dante Controller
Virtual Direct I/O
Dante Virtual Soundcard uses the Ethernet port you already have—no snakes, no converters, no special cables and connectors*, no external devices—none of that.

Record up to 64 channels of pristine audio from your Dante network using your favorite DAW such as ProTools, Logic, Cubase or others
Playout audio from any application like iTunes for background music, theater sound, and effects
Presentations and Conferences
Amplify your message with high quality audio that everyone can hear, using the network and Dante-enabled sound equipment that is already in place.

Share VoIP calls from Skype with your entire audience
Play sound from any application to enhance demonstrations and videos
Send rich, powerful audio from your PowerPoint or Keynote slides to any Dante-enabled sound system
Multichannel Powerhouse
Dante Virtual Soundcard gives you as many channels of audio as you need. Playing out background music from iTunes? Two is enough. Recording a huge live production? Capture up to 64 channels while streaming stereo mixdowns at the same time. Need to send audio to 11 different endpoints at once? Just click them in Dante Controller. Need to create a media distribution center? Dante Virtual Soundcard supports use on virtual machines, ideal for server installations*

Route audio to different destinations and devices with any number of channels, including splits
64 channels of uncompressed, bidirectional audio means no-compromise multi-track recording
Virtual Sound Check up to 64 channels of playout for live shows
Create a Media Distribution Center with support for installation on virtual servers*
* Dante Virtual Soundcard installation on virtual machines requires a multi-activation license and is for use with Type-1 hypervisors only. Contact sales for more information.

No Compromise Performance - It's Dan


https://www.audinate.com/lp/dante-software-combo-pack

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https://www.shure.com/en-US/conferencing-meetings/ignite/what-you-need-to-know-about-dante



What You Need to Know About Dante
Davida Rochman | January 24, 2014

Contributor:  Gino Sigismondi, Senior Manager, Shure Systems Support

For the last couple of years, we've all heard the steady drumbeat of digital in pro sound applications. Digital audio networking systems that transmit and receive up to 64 audio channels over a single Ethernet cable, and more recently, digital wireless microphone systems. These solutions allow audio inputs and outputs from enabled audio gear (for instance, a wireless microphone system or mixer) to be routed using a user's existing Mac or PC when loaded with the necessary software.  All inputs and outputs are carried as digital data running on lightweight, inexpensive Cat-5 cabling.

An emerging technology to the uninitiated, digital audio distribution has proven reliable and road-worthy in applications ranging from sound reinforcement at the G8 Summit and the Sydney Opera House to recording applications at a 500-member church in Vancouver, Washington.

While Australia-based Audinate's Dante is one of several competing protocols for communicating multiple audio channels over standard Ethernet and IP networks, it has led the industry in media attention, awards and licensing agreements with an impressive list of partners.  With applications in live sound, recording and conferencing, Shure jumped on board in 2012 and joined the ranks of Allen & Heath, Yamaha, and many, many others.  Dante represented an opportunity to bring a high performance plug-and-play experience to users of Shure's ULX-D digital wireless system, SCM820 Automatic Mixer and Microflex Wireless.

In this post, we'll address a few of the basics, so that the next time Dante comes up in conversation, you won't be thinking of the Middle Ages poet who wrote the Divine Comedy.  We'll also share the potential of network-based AV protocols, filtered through the real world experience of Jonathan Sage who is the Senior Audio Engineer for Boston College and uses Dante the way you might use an audio snake.  (But more about that in a minute.)


What is the Dante digital audio networking protocol?

Audio signals between Dante-enabled devices are routed using Dante Controller software.  This software, available from Audinate, can be downloaded to a customer's Mac or PC and sets up the routing. This specific set of communication rules is called a protocol.  (Most of us are familiar with VoIP – the Voice Over Internet Protocol that transformed your land line - if you still have one - into digital phone service.)


How is digital distribution different than analog?

In an analog AV implementation, the logical and physical connections are the same - most connections are point-to-point and individual cables represent each channel. Copper cables are needed to for each individual signal path. In Dante, the physical connecting point is irrelevant: as long as all the devices are connected to the same network, audio signals can be made available anywhere and everywhere. Patching and routing are configured in software and not over physical wired links.

Depending on the application, Dante allows up to 512 bi-directional channels of audio to be sent and distributed over an Ethernet network, using CAT-5e cable or CAT-6 cable. For example:


Eight channels of audio from a ULXD4Q receiver can be sent to a mixer in two ways:



Analog




8 analog audio cables from the ULXD4Q XLR outputs to the mixer inputs.


Dante




A single Ethernet CAT-5e cable from each device, using the Dante port.

(Non-Shure products shown are from Yamaha, Allen & Heath, and D-Link)

How is the system set up?

Devices that are Dante-enabled (like Shure's ULXD4Q wireless system) utilize Dante Controller, Audinate software that provides a graphical interface for set up, routing and device monitoring. It is designed to run on a customer's existing PC or Mac.

Michael Pettersen, Director of Shure's Technical Product Support team explained it this way to us: "Essentially, the Dante Controller is a dispatcher of the digital signals:  'Signal A – go to device #1, Signal B – go to device #2 and Signal C - go to device #3.'  In the world of analog audio, this type of signal routing is accomplished by the use of individual cables or a patch panel."


Are there cost benefits?

Digital media distribution reduces set-up time, plus it eliminates the need for miles of increasingly expensive copper wiring. Installation is simplified through digital networking since inexpensive CAT-5e or CAT-6e cable will carry all the required inputs and outputs as digital audio data.

Plus - digital distribution doesn't require anything in the way of hardware or software expense. Audinate's Dante Controller can operate on PCs running Windows 7 and Windows 8 or Macs running OS X 10.6.8, 10.7.5 and 10.8.  Another benefit is that Dante signals can co-exist on an organization's computer network without causing bandwidth issues with IT or control data.

Finally, Dante allows you to leverage existing, off-the-shelf, networking components. Dante is compatible with standard Ethernet switches and routers. For most applications, Audinate recommends using Gigabit switches.


Dante goes to Boston College

To get a sense of real-world applications for Dante, we chatted up Jonathan Sage, who in addition to being Boston College's Senior Audio Engineer is also its Audio and Events Services Supervisor.  No stranger to the world of network-based audio, he's had experience with Dante and some of its early competitors for several years.  Ask him whether he's a sound guy or an IT guy and he'll tell you, "I can answer a question about the difference between 625 fiber and 50-micron fiber just as easily as explaining what the signal flow of a console is. That's the industry we live in."

He's a Dante fan. And for good reason: "Dante allows me to use an entire building as a snake. I have several applications where I'm very far away from where the inputs and outputs are located – so being able to jack one side into an available data jack in a building and then the other side to an available data jack in the building and not even having to run 300' of Cat-5 is great.  It works seamlessly. It cuts my set-up time tons."  The degree to which Boston Collage has placed its faith in networked AV generally and Dante specifically is similarly impressive: "We have over 100 rooms on campus that are full HD over Cat-5.

"Our latest Dante project has been our arena's sound system, which is going online this fall. The project mixes a new Dante-based system and another networked audio system that exists in our stadium into one control room. Next year our stadium will be based around Dante when it is upgraded.  We are also looking into Netspander so that we can move our Dante systems across subnets. We're leveraging networking at a very high level."

Shure gets high marks, too: "We don't use any wireless systems on campus that aren't Shure.    All our podium mics, all our table mics  - everything."


The Advantages

The benefits of Dante are the same whether you need to set up a digital audio network for 54 classrooms or a 500-member church.  The difference in cost savings?  It's one of scale - miles of expensive copper cable.


Here are Dante benefits – in a nutshell:


Easy to Set Up
Plug and play – automatic discovery and simple signal routing
No special skills required to set up audio networking
Integrated media and control
Flexible
Can support up to 512 bi-directional audio channels
Supports a single integrated network for audio, video, control and monitoring
Control signals can be included on the network without additional cabling
Software periodically updated
Improved Audio Quality
• Doesn't suffer from hum, ground loops, audio quality degradation with long cable runs
• Nearly imperceptible latency
Few Ancillary Costs
No need for expensive copper analog cable
Uses widely available, economical CAT-5e and CAT-6 cable
Leverages existing network components, PCs or Macs
No software to purchase
Which Shure Products Offer

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https://www.svconline.com/products/video-display/dante-enabled-2
Dante-Enabled
Audinate aims beyond audio

This year will always mark a turning point for Audinate. It's clear the company has gone big on change and expansion— the debut of Dante AV and Dante-as-Software, and the accompanying partnerships, start a course for Dante that will encompass video distribution, embedded software, alongside the continued expansion of the Audinate control platform. This year will also see CEO Lee Ellison retire this month after 11 successful years and an IPO.

Founder Aidan Williams will move from his long tenure as CTO into CEO role as a yearlong planned transition and a natural extension of all the other plans for the company's signature networking platform. When the announcement was made in May, Williams said he saw his role "as leading the team to unlock the value embedded in transforming the global AV industry through networking and software." Grand plan indeed.

It takes confidence and commitment to roll the impeccable Dante reputation to a wider play, with all the attendant risks. Can Audinate who—with industry partners like Yamaha—shepherded and midwifed audio into the networked age do the same for video? Can the company also make the modern leap from hardware-enabled networking (which will continue) to being an embedded software as well?

Williams isn't worried. From his viewpoint Audinate was always a software company. Even though hardware was how the revolution would begin, software was in the DNA, part of the plan from the very beginning. Now he says, with his own long experience in AV and as a computer-enabled musician, he's seen first-hand the growing speed and power of processors; software is at an inflection point for our industry he says. "Hardware doesn't go away," he says, "there will always be hardware endpoints and in the near-term hardware will still serve large channel counts. But there is a wider opportunity.

"The way I think about the software side of things is that from the very beginning at Audinate we viewed the networking technology as related to general IT technology. Networking, computers, software all go together in my mind at least.


"We began with hardware and software. One of the initial things—Dante Virtual Sound Card—was a pure software implementation of Dante from the very beginning. That blew people's mind. No plugin PCI card."

He sees the latest developments as continuity. And he explains this is an organic evolution driven by the industry itself. It's not just Audinate; the expanding power of IT is moving us from purpose-built hardware to software-based solutions running on standardized hardware.

"We have heard for years that customers wanted to have video over IP offered alongside Dante audio over IP; we first demonstrated Dante for video all the way back in 2011. So we've had years of experience talking to customers—manufacturers, integrators and end customers—to understand their requirements and fold that into the specifications for Dante AV. We are confident that we've developed a product that hits the sweet spot of providing a superior video experience that will deliver for almost every installed AV use case, while still operating over a 1Gbps network to make it usable in the real world with existing infrastructure."

As for his new job as CEO which starts this month?

"For me this has been a process. In my role as the founder and chief technology officer, I've had substantial input into the company and what we make since the very beginning. For me the exciting aspect of stepping into the CEO role is to take more ownership of the strategic direction and drive that through. Growing, making it more widely available, allowing the industry to capitalize on the technology, which I think is a credible and achievable goal.

"There's also a realization of increased responsibility for other parts of the business. What gives me a great deal of comfort in that area is we've done a good job in building out the executive leadership team, sales, HR—I've been handed a good foundation. I'm grateful for Lee and the board putting in an excellent team I get to inherit."

With all this in mind let's recap some of the highlights of Audinate's 2019 so far.


Dante and 10G

The 1G-focused Dante AV hit in January; that same month saw Dante audio bridging to 10G through a newsworthy partnership with SDVoE first implemented in a new class of products from IDK. This new class of product links Dante audio for the first time with the SDVoE ecosystem.

The IDK IP-NINJAR/Dante Audio Bridge (model: NJR-AB08DAN) transcodes audio signals directly between the SDVoE and Dante protocol environments. Audio signal transport is enabled from NJR transmitters to Dante devices and from Dante device to NJR receivers. The bridge eliminates third party converters and processors. Each NJR-AB08DAN can receive up to four audio streams from IP-NINJAR transmitters outputting up to eight channels in Dante protocol. Additionally, each bridge can accept up to 8-channel audio from Dante sources, outputting IPNINJAR (SDVoE) protocol in up to four audio streams. This feature enables Dante audio embedding on HDMI signals and de-embedding through analog audio outputs at IP-NINJAR receivers.

The partnership between the SDVoE Alliance and Audinate expanded further in June when Audinate joined the Alliance as a contributing member and announced further collaboration plans. InfoComm saw demonstrations of Dante Controller managing SDVoE signal routing in the SDVoE Alliance booth and the Audinate booth.

Dante AV

In January, just before ISE, Audinate announced Dante AV, an integrated audio and video-over-IP solution for manufacturers. At InfoComm, Yamaha announced they'd take up the offer, followed a month later by telco/networking company Patton Electronics.

Audinate describes Dante AV as a complete integrated audio and video networking solution and promises to bring to video the same style of discovery, ease of use and integrated control that made Dante transformative for audio. Audinate says that Dante AV enables complete interoperability with every Dante-enabled audio product already on the market, which this year crossed the milestone of 2000 products. They comprise the largest installed base of AV Over IP devices in the world.


Dante is an IP routable Layer 3 technology that allows you to use standard IT network switches and cabling that are readily available.

One goal is to solve networked video and audio synchronization, utilizing a single network clock for sub-microsecond accuracy. With Dante AV, audio and video signals are independently routable in a single, interface using the Dante Controller software. One example: Dante AV solves time alignment issues and eliminates the need for audio de-embedders in applications such as sports bars, live events and multi-zoned AV systems for lip sync everywhere.

The Dante AV Module supports one video channel and eight bidirectional channels of uncompressed Dante audio. The Dante AV Module is ideal for manufacturers creating 1G video-over-IP products and includes Dante control, transport and synchronization. The architecture is codec-agnostic. In alignment with the software ethos, Dante AV also comes with an API so manufacturers can customize their management user interface.

Audinate has made the Dante AV Module available with the Dante AV Product Design Suite, providing a complete AV-over-IP endpoint design kit for manufacturers to get product to market. The Product Design Suite incorporates the Dante AV Module and includes hardware documents and software to create complete, fully interoperable AV products. The Dante AV Product Design Suite includes a JPEG2000 codec supporting 4K/60 4:4:4 video for visually lossless results with low latency over a 1Gbps network. Dante AV Product Design Suite also implements HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) to prevent copying of digital audio & video content as it travels across connections. The Dante AV Product Suite can be easily customized to suit an OEM's specific requirements and provide competitive differentiation.

At InfoComm, Yamaha announced that it had adopted Audinate's Dante AV Product Design Suite and would pursue integrated AV over IP audio/video technology. Yamaha's product team has begun concrete studies for a suite of new products targeted for the Pro AV market. Initial Yamaha AV products will center around applications requiring the need to breakout and distribute audio and video signals, while maintaining tight synchronization throughout the facility or venue.

Yamaha and Audinate have been collaborating for nearly a decade. Yamaha first supported the Dante audio network technology with the Mini-YGDAI card "DANTE-MY16-AUD" released in 2010. In 2012, Dante interfaces became a standard installed feature on CL Series digital mixing consoles. Yamaha has subsequently introduced a number of Dante-compatible products, such as the RIVAGE PM series of flagship digital mixing systems, the MTX / MRX series of matrix processors, and the VXL series of PoE line array speakers.

"The collaboration with Audinate over the past 10 years has been extremely beneficial to Yamaha," stated Yoshi Tsugawa, Senior General Manager of Yamaha Audio Business Division in a press release at the time. "Taking advantage of Audinate's expertise in digital networking has transformed networked audio and we anticipate Dante AV will deliver the same benefits for networked video in the Pro AV industry."


"Yamaha has a reputation for being very conservative and thorough in their analysis of new technology," Williams says, "so when they backed Dante audio in the early days, it added a level of credibility that the technology was solid," Williams adds. "For Dante AV, it's exciting that Yamaha is again an early supporter of the technology.

"When we envisioned Dante AV, we saw two potential segments of customers," Williams continues. "The first were manufacturers who were already using Dante for audio, and were looking to branch out into video. The second were manufacturers who were already making (or thinking about making) networked video products and were looking to add Dante audio capabilities. Having Yamaha voice their support for Dante AV is great validation of the first segment being viable, and there are many more interested customers beyond Yamaha in both segments that we are actively engaged with." (He declined to name names at this time. I asked).

In July, Audinate announced commercial availability of Dante AV; Patton Electronics, a US manufacturer and OEM/ODM supplier of networking and connectivity solutions for Pro-AV and Telephony, including VoIP, announced that they would adopt the platform into a new generation of AV-Over-IP products.

In a press release at the time, Buddy Oliver, VP of Business Development for Patton touted the relationship: "Patton brought on the FiberPlex (aka LightViper) brand in 2017. Patton's VoIP expertise combined with FiberPlex's AV experience makes the addition of video a natural next step. We are excited to introduce video capable UC products to our existing markets as well as gaining access to new adjacent markets.

Dante-As-Software

About a week before InfoComm, Audinate announced two new software-based Dante products. Dante Embedded Platform enables manufacturers to add full Dante functionality in software running on Linux for x86 and ARM processors. The Dante Application Library allows software developers to seamlessly integrate Dante functionality directly into their PC and Mac applications.

These new software-based solutions give manufacturers and developers the ability to deploy Dante into products and applications where it wasn't previously feasible, in ways that weren't previously possible with purpose-built hardware. Specifically, Dante can now be deployed in products where either the price point or form factor made integrating dedicated Dante hardware challenging. Dante as software also provides the potential to enable new capabilities like Dante being deployed retroactively to products already in the field, the ability to add new features and functions to products on the fly, and the possibility for manufacturers, integrators or customers to configure the number of Dante channels they want for a particular application.


The Dante Embedded Platform drafts off the fact that leading manufacturers are already delivering AV products built on powerful commodity x86 and ARM computing hardware running Linux. In a press release, Audinate reminded the industry that Dante Embedded Platform "is designed for these OEMs, providing cost-effective Dante networking with minimal additional hardware."

Dante Embedded Platform will offer two options for manufacturers: an SDK with validation tools will eliminate costly guesswork by allowing OEMs to easily qualify existing x86 and ARM based products for Dante performance requirements. For new products under development, Audinate will also provide complete reference designs for popular ARM SoC chipsets such as the Analog Devices ADSP-SC589 and NXP i.MX 8M Mini QuadLite.

QSC and Audinate had previously announced a strategic partnership. At InfoComm came word that QSC would begin to deploy the Dante Embedded Platform within the Q-SYS ecosystem to enable native software-based Dante audio channels without the need for additional I/O or external configuration software. With this development, integrators will be able to add Dante audio natively as an extension of the Q-SYS integrated audio/video/control workflow. It also makes device discovery, synch, control and management for Dante available directly within Q-SYS Designer (or still via Dante Controller if desired).

QSC says all new Q-SYS Core processors will ship with a small set of Dante audio channels at no extra cost. Additionally, QSC will offer tiered feature licenses to enable Q-SYS system users to scale Dante integration capabilities based on their specific installation needs and Q-SYS Core processor capabilities.

For Analog Devices (ADI), Audinate announced a reference design for ADI's popular ADSP-SC589 DSP + ARM processor. Audinte also announced at the time they had become a member of the Analog Devices Alliances program.

The Dante Embedded Platform Reference Design Kit for ADSP-SC589 enables OEMs to design high performance, software-based Dante products for that processor. Quoting the press release: "The ADSP-SC589 SoC pairs two powerful SHARC DSP cores with an ARM Cortex CPU and allows developers to focus on their own algorithm and UI development on a software-based platform with a highly optimized software and tools ecosystem."

Last month, Audinate also announced they had collaborated with NXP Semiconductors' for a reference design kit for NXP's i.MX 8M processors, enabling on-chip software. The Dante Embedded Platform Reference Design Kit for NXP's i.MX 8M processors will be validated by Audinate for Dante performance, and lets OEMs design for Dante with confidence. The i.MX 8M Mini QuadLite processor offers four Cortex-A53 cores, one Cortex-M4 core with flexible memory options and a variety of high-speed connectivity interfaces, ideal for AV-over-IP applications.


The Dante Application Library for Windows and MacOS gives developers the ability to build Dante functionality directly into their products. Each instance is wholly contained within each application and not shared with other resources, allowing multiple Dante-enabled applications to run simultaneously on a single computer with complete independence.

With Dante Application Library, developers can integrate Dante device discovery and subscriptions directly into their conferencing, recording, lecture capture and media playback products for a seamless "one-stop-shop" setup experience. It provides instant access to thousands of popular Dante-enabled products that include microphones, DSPs, amplifiers and powered speakers. One of the head-turning partnerships announced at InfoComm was with Zoom, which has teamed with Audinate to integrate the Dante Application Library into its Zoom Rooms application for video meetings.

For more information, visit the Dante Embedded Platform and Dante Application Library product pages.

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kimyo

i just hooked up a $160 dante interface i ordered from china.  it's got 4 ins and 4 outs (on a terminal block, you need to wire up your own xlr jacks).

strictly a no frills deal, i was looking for:
1) something cheap enough that i wouldn't shed any tears if it got stolen
2) improved latency - low enough to run all of my inputs thru ableton instead of using direct monitoring

observations so far:
ableton reports total latency of 11.6 msec (audinate virtual soundcard set to 1msec latency, 64 samples, 24bits)
a fairly large liveset which was glitchy on a tascam us4x4 at 128 samples is glitch free on the dante interface
izotope stutter edit, which was unreliable for live performance usage before now seems to be very smooth

i'll do some side by side recording to check input audio quality with a few instruments.  output quality of existing recorded material is very good.

i love having the audio travel via ethernet, it just seems like the most obvious solution.  every pc i have has an ethernet port which is essentially unused (i keep my music systems off of the internet as much as possible). 

this particular unit weighs next to nothing, which is nice. 

the first unit i was considering was the digigrid d-cube, also 4 in / 4 out but way beyond my budget at $700 (the total damage would be $1400, as i bring a secondary computer/interface to gigs).  i'd also be hesitant to leave a pair of $700 interfaces unattended onstage in some of the less-than-savory venues i frequent.

i didn't buy it from amazon, but this is a link to what looks like an identical unit:
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-transmitter-converter-supporting-address/dp/B081H5945W/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=dante+audio&qid=1579054225&refinements=p_89%3ABen+%26+Fellows&rnid=2528832011&sr=8-7

add in the cost for the audinate virtual sound card and a few xlr jacks and the grand total is still under $200.  all in all, i'm pretty happy.  i'll report back as it gets a more thorough workout. 

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Quote from: kimyo on January 14, 2020, 06:47:09 PM
i just hooked up a $160 dante interface i ordered from china.  it's got 4 ins and 4 outs (on a terminal block, you need to wire up your own xlr jacks).

strictly a no frills deal, i was looking for:
1) something cheap enough that i wouldn't shed any tears if it got stolen
2) improved latency - low enough to run all of my inputs thru ableton instead of using direct monitoring

observations so far:
ableton reports total latency of 11.6 msec (audinate virtual soundcard set to 1msec latency, 64 samples, 24bits)
a fairly large liveset which was glitchy on a tascam us4x4 at 128 samples is glitch free on the dante interface
izotope stutter edit, which was unreliable for live performance usage before now seems to be very smooth

i'll do some side by side recording to check input audio quality with a few instruments.  output quality of existing recorded material is very good.

i love having the audio travel via ethernet, it just seems like the most obvious solution.  every pc i have has an ethernet port which is essentially unused (i keep my music systems off of the internet as much as possible). 

this particular unit weighs next to nothing, which is nice. 

the first unit i was considering was the digigrid d-cube, also 4 in / 4 out but way beyond my budget at $700 (the total damage would be $1400, as i bring a secondary computer/interface to gigs).  i'd also be hesitant to leave a pair of $700 interfaces unattended onstage in some of the less-than-savory venues i frequent.

i didn't buy it from amazon, but this is a link to what looks like an identical unit:
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-transmitter-converter-supporting-address/dp/B081H5945W/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=dante+audio&qid=1579054225&refinements=p_89%3ABen+%26+Fellows&rnid=2528832011&sr=8-7

add in the cost for the audinate virtual sound card and a few xlr jacks and the grand total is still under $200.  all in all, i'm pretty happy.  i'll report back as it gets a more thorough workout.

LET US KNOW HOW IT WORKS OUT ?

a few Dante Interfaces are here:

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?trafficChannel=main&d=y&CatId=0&SearchText=dante+audio&ltype=wholesale&SortType=price_asc&groupsort=1&page=1


kimyo

Quote from: admin on January 14, 2020, 07:30:52 PM
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000150459602.html
that's the one.  the unit cost was $109.  shipping and a 4% paypal overseas charge were $44.  it arrived in less than a week.

the company i purchased it from is called 'lucky tone':
http://www.lucky-tone.com/product_35.html
(that particular unit isn't listed on their website, see the attached pdf for specifications and alternate options, including the '448v' w/phantom power which was quoted to me at $230 before shipping)



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Ferofish Pulse 16Dx


  • 16 X 16 analog
  • 32 channels of Dante I/O @ 96kHz
  • 32 channels of MADI I/O @ 96 kHz
  • 16 channels of ADAT I/O
  • MIDI I/O
  • Routing matrix
  • Networked audio with format conversion 


$1999

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Pulse16DX--ferrofish-pulse16-dx-16-by-16-ad-da-dante-madi-and-adat-converter
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