DANTE for the first time

[TomyN]

New dante input section featuring two TIO-1680 and one Dante - AES Adapter.
Works very smooth...

[Reujonik]

Nice. Don't ya just love new tech. Can you tell us your cable flow, how you find the Dante Aes adapter and what sort of latency you're getting. There is also a Dante usb adapter, I wonder how that fares, would it be good for a laptop setup? How do you control the pre's. I am also wondering what the advantage is over SACs native networking. Come on, tell us all about it........

[TomyN]

Hi
Computer has a Yamaha AIC-128D PCIe card. Unfortunately this blocks the PCIe 16x port on the MoBo, so I could not continue to use the PCIe Graphics adapter.
So currently I'm using the pc at FoH (in a 4 HE Case) with the monitor connected to the build - in graphics adapter.

There is a 8 port hub in the FoH(PC) case and a second 8 port hub in the stage - rack (with four PoE ports). Current dante devices are 2 TIO1608-D and one Dante-Avio-AES adapter.
Latency setting for the TIO is 0.5 ms ( latency monitoring showing around 0.2ms of 'real' latency) and 1.0ms for the AES Adapter ( which is the lowest setting possible for this device).

The x-touch extender is connected via rtp - midi (works fine but the meters are not operating)

OS is win8.1 / 64 ( currently with SAC 4.6 / 32).

Planned next steps are: SAC 64, Two more TIO, one ESI Planet for FoH....