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Hmm...for some reason, the AVDECC controller doesn't have a "Simple Virtual Audio Entity" option in the window menu. Ideas?

May I ask why wifi can be chosen as interface type of network in settings? Since avb runs with ethernet only Thanks!

Thank you so much for this video. I have a question I am looking into buying a PreSonus® StudioLive® Series III 16R with the following purpose: Use it connected to my computer for my church setting as the main mixer, have all the inputs sent to Waves SuperRack Performer software, have it processed with waves plugins and then sent out the 16R XLRs to FOH My question is which connection to my computer (Mac) should I use, AVB or USB? Which should give me the least latency possible? Which one is more stable? I know a lot of the latency have to do with my computer processing power, but is there a difference in speed transfer between AVB and USB that I would favor one of them?

Question: this should work fine with a normal gigabit Ethernet on say a docking station over the thunderbolt 3. The adaptors surely aren’t necessary if using something like a docking station with multiport’s ?

going to try this. use case is looking for way to route audio from macbook to the studio machine, macbook is used as audio effect processor for live input. macbook does not have a native eithernet so hoping i can get this working using a eithernet dongle via usb c/ thunderbolt. i have all machines eithernet via my virgin fiber hub at the moment for my network moving files around. im thinking i will probably need to make a direct eithernet LAN connection between the two machines for this to work. really glad to have found your video. many thanks :)

what about on PC

Thank you for this video! Unfortunately for me, I just upgraded to a new MacStudio and it came running Sonoma. They seem to have changed a in the last three years and this doesn't work anymore. Can't find any tutorials specific to Sonoma (or Ventura...not sure when the setup changed) and I can't seem to figure out what's going on. The Mac does not show the AVB devices as being available in the Audio setup and I can't get it to work in acquired or any other mode for that matter. It doesn't show up in Network Device setup. I'm at a complete loss.

Thanks for this post (3 years later LOL) Ray. I am on Ventura and it seems the screens have changed. Will you be updating this older vid?

Thnx awesome explaination, can use my old mac mini’s again :)

Hi Ray. I am so happy I stumbled on your video. I am new to audio routing on the Mac and have been trying to figure out how to send audio from one mac to another. I have multiple mics being mixed on one Mac in Loopback and want to send the final output to another Mac to be streamed out via Zoom with video. The two computers are on the same network. AVB seems to be the answer, but I have a question. When I go to the Window menu in AVB Audio Configuration I don't have the same items as you and don't have the Simple Audio Configuration option. drive.google.com/file/d/1Z3p2Z4YsVQ06grrh2FrexMtzsliCNKVR/view?usp=share_link. Also, mine is called ATDECC Controller? It all seems similar, but different enough. I am on Mac OS 13.6. Any idea if I am missing something here?

Looks like it's time for a follow-up, trying to translate this video into what the current settings are, and am struggling a bit.

Does this work with apple Mac mini M1/2?

Great video. Please advise. Does this work on Mac M1 running Ventura. When I tried it did not see my AVB switch Pleaaenadvisw

I was trying to set this up on my new Mac Studio M2 Max (Studiolive 32sc & NSB 16.8), some differences in the AVB util. No simple virtual audio window any more. It's all under the ATDECC controller. With those differences in mind, I did enable it on the new mac studio, but could never get return audio out of the mains. Banged my head against this for a few days until I broke down and got a specific avb thunderbolt adapter (sonnet thunderbolt avb adapter). Worked like a charm, got return audio out the mains. I'm not sure if there's been changes to the internal nic on the studio or not but I thought it would be a good idea to post this here in case others are having the same issue.

THANK YOU Ray! .. Ive got mu Drum room Mac Mini M2 (Apple thunderbolt to Ethernet) connected to PRESONUS QUANTM interface linked to Bedroom Mix Mac Mac Studio also with Apple thunderbolt to ethernet adapter connected to the secondary port of my 2nd Quantum PRESONUS Interface...... Seems to work, but occasionally I hear a tiny "Tick" or "pop" randomly .... I have been searching and searching, and cannot find out how to troubleshoot this. Thanks in Advance!!!!!

All Windows version after 3.11 are bad

Educational video. Thank you. Do you know if I can use my RME AVB device as an audio interface to record into my DAW as AoIP via the Ethernet port? I don’t understand AVB yet, so if I connect my AVB devices to my wireless router, would I then be able to access the devices’ parameters and receive audio to my MacBook to record into my DAW?

thanks Ray...good tutorial

Looks like this has all changed in Ventura...time for a new updated video? I believe AVDECC has also been renamed to ATDECC?

Thank you for the video. It is very helpful. We have set up our MacBook as an endpoint with the 64S. Every Sunday when we come in to use it we have to open the connection matrix because our connections aren’t working. The boxes are still checked, but we have to click the box to uncheck it and then click the box again to check it. The the audio works. Any reason why this would happen? And is there a fix. Thank you so much.

How do I get compatible streams between my Avid Carbon and the rest of my Presonus Eco system? I know it may be a dumb question, but it's been relativly easy up to this point. I wanna run my stage box into the Avid Carbon. Any help would be appriciated.

Ran into the "Acquire" issue trying to get my church system set up for better live-streaming. This video explained everything perfectly! Thank you so much!

HI Ray, thank you for the tutorial. I use your suggested adapters and followed all the steps but It seems it is different for Ventura. Can you please guide me how can I turn my Mac Book Pro 2019, Ventura macOS into an AVB end point? Thank you!

Interesting. Thanks.

Once all of it is set up and working, how can you have your mac save the settings. Every time we power down, it resets all settings on the AVB audio configuration utility and we have to go in and manually set up the matrix again at each restart. Any help would be awesome on how to avoid this.

Just want to say this helped me set up my M1 Macbook Pro with my Motu 16A and Ableton. I had to do some more steps due to the Motu matrix routing but finally worked it out. Now I can connect my outboard gear to my M1 with one cat6 cable. Tahnk you.

could you split this video on chapters please?

Hi Ray, Thank you for this informative video!!! Since you know AVB inside out maybe you could shine some light on my following problem: I would like to set up a small home recording studio as follows (this would be of course the aim, I don't know if this is at the present stage of development possible): 1. at my Mac I would like something with at least 2 mic and maybe 2 line ins, with 2 or 4 outputs for monitors and maybe headphones - something small 19", 2. the interface at my mac should be an DAW connection point to the mac and also be able to connect digital stage boxes via ethernet (like Presonus NSB or Midas DL32 or Behringer SD16), 3. there should be a possibility to connect via ethernet personal monitoring like Presonus EarMix 16M or Midas DP48 - it would be best if this was possible with power over ethernet and directly to the stage boxes. I know that I have mixed different connection protocols, like AVB and AES50, but it was just to show what kind of solution I am looking for. Any chance that such a setup might be possible without robbing a bank? Kind regards, Wojciech Migda

is the iPad Pro also compatible with AVB?? Cheers

Thanks Ray for uploading this. I have been using The Show Page since it was released for my band and it's awesome.. Can you share where Presonus release more tricks and tips about the show page? Also what is the model of the Atom controller you were using? Thanks in advance.

Does Hive allow for saving connections? Currently using universal control for the connections matrix. It seems like I have to keep entering the connections. Kind of a pain. Thanks for the vids!

Seeing as how this is an older video, would a USB-C to Gigabit Ethernet adapter be compatible?

A pretty good guide. Is there an ability to adjust (preamp) trim controls in the PreSonus gear, through this kind of software? This is the challenge I'm trying to solve for. Using a combination of MOTU and PreSonus gear. The MOTU software is awesome but doesn't give me the control I need over the NSB 16.8 breakout box.

Are you still a product manager at presonus? I have a presonus RM 16 AI, and I use windows 10, and I’m trying to find out what I need to do to allow the hardware to talk to the computer and take advantage of the ultra low latency. Where can I find drivers? Do I need a special network card?

Thanks, would love to see your mixing app too on the Mac

Are you still with Presonus? You haven’t been posting about anything in a long while.. Is Presonus going to do something soon? It’s been radio silence since Fender bought Presonus.

Hey man, great helpful video my only issue is once I route in the matrix and then restart my computer it doesn’t save. so every time I restart my computer I have to re route in the matrix. Is there a way I don’t have to check those boxes in the matrix every time after restarting my computer. Thanks in advance

Quick question for you Ray, and maybe for everyone else here in the community. I managed to get everything connected and set up except for one last crucial step. My Studiolive 32SC cannot see my Mac as an available AVB Input stream, so I cannot route any sound from the Mac into the Studiolive mixer. Everything shows up in the AVDECC Connection Matrix and I can connect all the streams there, but the Mixer cannot see the streams from the Mac. Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts on why this might happen? Thank you!

Thanks for the explanation! A use case it's not mentioned but it totally works is setting up to 64 channels between two Macs with just an ethernet cable. Adding Loopback to the equation you can have routing independent from the DAW and share the same regular (non AVB) USB device (or aggregated devices) I/O between those two computers! It's amazingly stable and latency is great. Audio routed to the same interface output is summed. Super useful for live uses like redundancy setups, two people (two DAW) performances, offloading CPU, audio and video/light independent processes (audio reactivity) and maaany more stuff I can't think of now. If you happen to have two Macs, I suggest to make a video specifically for a two Mac setup with USB audio interface, a lot of people would be interested. Cheers!

Ray! Now my 24ai sits by the stage and I am 200 feet away sipping coffee with a 13" macbook pro, usb c to thunderbolt 2 dongle to a thunderbolt 2 to gigiabit dongle. The dude at the apple store looked at me like I was nuts. But it works with zero complaint. Boom, 24 analog channels. I would have never figured out I needed 2 dongles. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Hi, thanks for this! I've tried every possible cable combo and interface available to make AVB steady on my M1 Mac running Monterey. No luck, apart from a few sweet 3 minute runs here and there, TB3-TB2->TB2-Ethernet not working. Sonnet Mac TB-AVB ethernet not working. No other docking solution working. AVB Devices from Sollinger. I get constant network dropouts.

Sonnet Technologies has just introduced a Thunderbolt AVB Adapter for Thunderbolt 3 and 4 Macs (including M1 Macs). See details at www.sonnettech.com/product/thunderbolt-avb-adapter/overview.html

Got it working with an RME M-1610 pro and MacBook Pro 13" M1.

Thanks for the clear explanation... took me nearly an hour from reading "mac supports AVB natively" to understanding "but not with most macbooks that dont have build in ethernet because USB ethernet you might use there doesnt support it by 99% chance - you must have a mac with built in ethernet...

Hi, I followed the instructions to connect my MacBook pro late 2012 16gb ram to the AVB Network and apparently everything work good except my computer get super slow as soon as I click the network option. So ableton live crashes and when it stays working it take forever to play a session. Anyone experienced the same? Any solution to this problem?

What configuration should I use for studio live 32s ? How many channels per stream?

What's the highest sample rate avb can use? Does track count or stream count decrease with a higher sample rate like in other devices? Newbie.learning, sorry if it's a silly question.

Thanks for the informative video. I'm new to all this, so does this mean I can daisy chain a mac with a stagebox? To access the avb network?