CAT-5 Mini-YDGAI (Yamaha) cards

Andrew Broughton

Andrew Broughton

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Looking to do some multi track to/from the Yamaha stuff. Gotta retire the old mLAN stuff since it's too hard to make it work now.

Wondering if anyone's already done the legwork on this.... I could do the research but it takes time to get costs and research the various products. (Just being lazy today, but I'd also like to hear opinions if anyone's done some comparisons)

There's the Audinate/Dante system (DANTE-MY16-AUD + Dante Virtual Soundcard), and Ethersound (Auvitran AVY16-ES100 or Yamaha MY16-ES64).

What's my best bet?

I don't know if Auvitran's AVS-ASIO Streamer will work with the Yamaha Ethersound cards?

What's cheaper? Audinate cards with Dante Virtual Soundcard or Ethersound and the Streamer?

I seem to remember one of those solutions charges something for the ASIO drivers (Audinate?), so I guess to properly compare, I'd need to find out what the total cost was for a 3-card solution (48 tracks) and the ASIO driver/software.

Thanks!
 
Re: CAT-5 Mini-YDGAI (Yamaha) cards

Andrew
The Dante should be the less expensive answer. The right number of cards and a gigabyte switch. As I understand it the Dante virtual sound card license is included with the card. If you need it on many different computers then you would need to purchase additional licenses. The Ethersound cards come in a master and expansion cards card arrangement. The master card is more than double a Dante card with the expansion card being slightly less than a Dante card. No Switch is required. As I understand it you would use the Auvitran ASIO streamer. I found the Dante solution to be about 25% less before factoring in the switch. I hope this helps.

Raul Suarez
Third Ear Sound
 
I use Dante from my LS9-32. Two cards and a NETGEAR N600 router to my MacBook pro and into Reaper via the virtual sound card.
I regularly record 24 tracks though the config will work for 32.
I record to a external drive via FireWire 800.
I tried it with ASIO on a Vista laptop but could not solve a DPC latency problem that came up every 13 seconds. I gave up and bought a Mac and things were good.
 
Can you also play into the Dante card from the computer? Does it work both ways? Would be nice to be able to pull 8 channels off for recording an use the other 8 for playback. Might even be useful for PC resident plugins if you can set it up as inserts.
 
Yes
Dante is bidirectional. Actually it is 64x64 but the virtual sound card seems to have a 32ch limit though I could be wrong about that.

It all gets wired up like a normal Ethernet (cause it is) and then you use a control program to patch outs to the inputs you want. Outputs can go to more than one place.
 
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