Dante
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Re: Dante
It is a way of distributing audio over a data network. There is some discussion of it here. The advantage of networked audio over point to point audio is that every input to the network is available at every output from the network.
Mac
It is a way of distributing audio over a data network. There is some discussion of it here. The advantage of networked audio over point to point audio is that every input to the network is available at every output from the network.
Mac
Re: Dante
Networking audio and control would be a great topic for the lab get together..... there is definitely a lot of ambiguity.
Networking audio and control would be a great topic for the lab get together..... there is definitely a lot of ambiguity.
Re: Dante
We have had workshops on this at the last several AES conventions, and will have another this Oct at the 131st convention in NY.
Mac
We have had workshops on this at the last several AES conventions, and will have another this Oct at the 131st convention in NY.
Mac
Re: Dante
No doubt, the more available information the better. I tried to go to AES last year in SF but couldn't get it together. I'll definitely be at the 131st.
No doubt, the more available information the better. I tried to go to AES last year in SF but couldn't get it together. I'll definitely be at the 131st.
Re: Dante
Working on it. I may have found someone to give a presentation in current audio network technologies. Either way, consoles using pretty much every current "standard" will be there.
Working on it. I may have found someone to give a presentation in current audio network technologies. Either way, consoles using pretty much every current "standard" will be there.
Tim Weaver
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Re: Dante
Dante theorized that there was in fact, a way out of production. In fact the whole experience of production, the fatigue, late nights, injuries, hangovers, etc, were simply a test. Not one which many humans could pass. It seems most humans were resigned to their fates of being monitor engineers and system techs. They simply gave up. For you see, you had to experience all of production to escape it. You had to go further down the steppes in order to find the way out. Many had given up for the way is brutally treacherous, where at the end you had to face...... The Promoter.
Of course all of this theory came to Dante in a drunken stupor after a particularly hard night after a NAMM show. Absynthe may have been involved.....
Dante theorized that there was in fact, a way out of production. In fact the whole experience of production, the fatigue, late nights, injuries, hangovers, etc, were simply a test. Not one which many humans could pass. It seems most humans were resigned to their fates of being monitor engineers and system techs. They simply gave up. For you see, you had to experience all of production to escape it. You had to go further down the steppes in order to find the way out. Many had given up for the way is brutally treacherous, where at the end you had to face...... The Promoter.
Of course all of this theory came to Dante in a drunken stupor after a particularly hard night after a NAMM show. Absynthe may have been involved.....
Re: Dante
Here is a link to Audinate, the folks down under who invented the Dante protocol:
http://www.audinate.com/
There is a FAQ-section that answers a lot of questions and as you'll see there is a very interesting list of partners that have committed to supporting Dante in the future.
The really interesting Dante news this summer for many of us live folks is what the pricing will be on the new Focusrite Rednet remote preamps.
Basically, you can set up a Dante network where mics plug into the preamps on stage and they convert the signals to Dante protocol network signals that can be distributed over CAT5 + some standard routers.
These signals can (using examples here) be sent to a monitor mixer, a FOH mixer, plus a PC for mutitrack recording. Have a video team playing back sound bites from a remote location? No sweat, make them part of the network and whatever they put onto it is available to anyone else, and at the same time, the video guys have access to not only every source on stage, they have access to whatever mixes and submixes the FOH and monitor boards are putting out, too. EDIT: Talking about the audio here, Dante doesn't transfer video (yet).
You can make you speaker processors or amps part of the network and easily put whatever mixes you want into any amp channel.
One really neat thing with Dante is that by buying a Dante-enabeled product, you get a "virtual soundcard" program that allows you to put a normal laptop computer onto the network via the RJ45 port that just about every computer today has, and voila: You have multitrack recording capability. If you need really low latency for the recording/playback, you must purchase a separate Dante card for your computer (this will be part of the Focusrite Rednet range). The rest of the network is very low latency, regardless.
Apparantly, these products are auto-IP and really easy to set up, and super-stable so you can even share traffic with others on the same network.
Hope this helps, Kristian.
Here is a link to Audinate, the folks down under who invented the Dante protocol:
http://www.audinate.com/
There is a FAQ-section that answers a lot of questions and as you'll see there is a very interesting list of partners that have committed to supporting Dante in the future.
The really interesting Dante news this summer for many of us live folks is what the pricing will be on the new Focusrite Rednet remote preamps.
Basically, you can set up a Dante network where mics plug into the preamps on stage and they convert the signals to Dante protocol network signals that can be distributed over CAT5 + some standard routers.
These signals can (using examples here) be sent to a monitor mixer, a FOH mixer, plus a PC for mutitrack recording. Have a video team playing back sound bites from a remote location? No sweat, make them part of the network and whatever they put onto it is available to anyone else, and at the same time, the video guys have access to not only every source on stage, they have access to whatever mixes and submixes the FOH and monitor boards are putting out, too. EDIT: Talking about the audio here, Dante doesn't transfer video (yet).
You can make you speaker processors or amps part of the network and easily put whatever mixes you want into any amp channel.
One really neat thing with Dante is that by buying a Dante-enabeled product, you get a "virtual soundcard" program that allows you to put a normal laptop computer onto the network via the RJ45 port that just about every computer today has, and voila: You have multitrack recording capability. If you need really low latency for the recording/playback, you must purchase a separate Dante card for your computer (this will be part of the Focusrite Rednet range). The rest of the network is very low latency, regardless.
Apparantly, these products are auto-IP and really easy to set up, and super-stable so you can even share traffic with others on the same network.
Hope this helps, Kristian.
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