HD Native and Dante

[Peter Baird]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

Nope you can't do that test as the 002 (and 003) drivers do not support aggregating. And no, you also cannot aggregate any HD Native or HDX IO with any core audio devices. You are pretty locked in with a HD environment for bad (marketing) and probably good (aggregation can be pretty unreliable) reasons. If you want to connect bulk IO into a HD environment the options today really are interfaces that use TDM/emulate an Avid HD interface box, ADAT/SMUX and MADI. Hopefully Avid will do some more AVB toys in future, but then AVB is different again from Dante.

Be sure to add the Focusrite Rednet 5 to that list. I use four of 'em to bring 128 channels of Dante directly into two HDX cards. (Had to have the lowest latency possible.)

As I understand it Dante is a subset of AVB and Audinate maintains it as such.

Peter

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by Peter Baird

Be sure to add the Focusrite Rednet 5 to that list. I use four of 'em to bring 128 channels of Dante directly into two HDX cards. (Had to have the lowest latency possible.)



As I understand it Dante is a subset of AVB and Audinate maintains it as such.



Peter

Yep that is counted as an interface that just emulates an Avid HD/TDM interface. Quite nice today if you want to use Ethernet.

But when a Dante and an AVB device can just connect and talk to each other I will be impressed. IMNSHO Audinate has a limited time in the market to get Dante fully AVB compatible or get rolled over by commoditization.