Use Dante To Turn your Mixer Into A Soundcard

Setup a Dante network with my dante cheat sheet:
www.offshoreaudio.no/dante
Want to record a band to practice mixing later? Or do you still want a soundcheck when the band can’t make soundcheck? You need Dante Virtual Soundcard. DVS lets you turn your mixer into a soundcard for you computer, just like it was focusrite or some other soundcard. I’ve Lived the horrors of analogue recording at a live show but you don’t have to becuase I’m going to show you how to set up DVS on your computer and set everything up to make a multitrack recording.

[@toddharris3346]

Perfect timing! I’m new to Dante and my new DM3-D just showed up. Thank you.

[@OffshoreAudio]

Amazing! Glad I could help :D

[@cakejox3907]

You’re such a legend man. Thanks so much for taking your time to make these videos! 🙏

[@OffshoreAudio]

Ah thank you so much! it's fun! And when it helps people out it's inccredibly rewarding :D

[@annebokma4637]

I am using a behringer x18 connected to a mini pc running dante via. Including an optional touchscreen I am still under 1000€ that is great for that many ports connected to dante.

[@mauromolfetta6248]

Thank you Sir

[@OffshoreAudio]

You're very welcome

[@RobertGlotzbach]

Thank you for this video :-) Is there some simple soundcard with up to 8 channels that I could use with the Dante virtual soundcard?

[@OffshoreAudio]

You're very welcome. I've not come across something like that. What would you use it for? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're looking for

[@RobertGlotzbach]

@@OffshoreAudio Well, I bought a MacBook pro mid 2014, in order to run Qlab on it. Now I would like to connect a Roland FA-66 trough firewire because I need 4 audio inputs for lavs. The problem is that I have a hard time to find the necessary adapters to connect them (I need to go from firewire 1394 to Thunderbolt 2). I am wondering if another card that I can connect trough Dante will solve my problem.

[@OffshoreAudio]

Ah I see. Apple strikes again. Dante have a list of sorts. global.audinate.com/products/dante-enabled/all/microphone-preamps?lang=z They're pretty pricey so I'd probably just get a thunderbolt usb hub and a regular usb soundcard. That's if you can't find the necessary adapters to make it work.

[@annebokma4637]

Using Dante Via to make my usb sound interface into a Dante source/destination.

[@bubbl_media]

Thank you for the nice video tutorial! Is it possible to get the dante signals into DAW and output it simultaneously to analog speakers or headphones connected to the same DAW-PC? Unfortunately I just found out how to output it into dante network again.

[@OffshoreAudio]

you're welcome. It depends. Can the DAW use to separate audio engines at once? Maybe on Mac you could create an aggregate audio device to make it happen. Not sure if there's a windows version of that, or if that is even current.

[@mathewriera2913]

Thank you so much the video! SUPER HELPFUL! Question, how would I troubleshoot my DVS not properly showing within Dante Controller. It shows up within the "Device Info" tab within Dante Controller but NOT under the "Routing" tab... At the bottom of Dante controller it is showing 2 devices (Dante Card & DVS a.k.a MacBook Pro) Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

[@postaudioformedia]

Is your device in Dante Controller showing up as red? That's usually an issue of ip addresses not matching. If you double click on the device in the device info tab and it's a mismatch ip it should pop up with a warning that tells you what the device ip is and what the dante network is set as.

[@wattscharliedoing]

Might sound like a silly question, but at 6:58 when you used Dante Controller to route the stage box (TX) straight to your PC as the RX - aren't you making it harder for yourself to record? As you won't have easy to use gain levels for a recording, compared to using the dLive as your TX...?

[@bboymac84]

How can I send audio over WiFi with Dante to a client I’m recording vocals to from let’s say from Boston to California?

[@wattscharliedoing]

I don't know enough to answer it fully, but it I think it is possible. Instead of wifi, Dante recommends dark fibre or PrivateLink. Otherwise an open network can result in data loss and therfore audio artefacts. I'd recommend looking into Dante Domain Manager (DDM) within Dante Controller as both locations will be on seperate networks ... plus enabling AES67 on a device (if it supports it) to help create better syncing over a GPS location.

[@Ashotstudios]

Hey, what can I do if I don’t have a Dante on my mixer? I have an Allen & Heath SQ7 Mixer

[@churchlifeua]

how can I direct outs from my daw not to Dante card but to another sound card, is it possible?

[@OffshoreAudio]

Can the DAW use two separate audio engines at once? Maybe on Mac you could create an aggregate audio device to make it happen. Not sure if there's a windows version of that, or if that is even current.