Allen & Heath M-DANTE-A 64x64 Dante Audio Networking Card

NOTE: Requires AH-DL-ADAPT-A adapter card with use in dLive and Avantis consoles.

Complete your Dante setup with Allen & Heath’s Dante Networking Expansion Card (M-DANTE). This is one of several optional plug-in cards available from Allen & Heath to provide more alternatives to your setup. The Dante Networking Expansion Card is compatible with iLive, GLD, and ME series products (sold separately)

More about Dante

Get high-performance sound like never before with Dante™, the innovative, Ethernet-compliant audio networking technology developed by Audinate. Dante uses CAT5 cables and standard networking components to distribute multiple audio streams, as well as integrated control data with sub-millisecond latency, providing sound system options that give you maximum flexibility and versatility to meet whatever demands arise. Dante is a next-generation solution to challenges often found in the industry of live sound, routing, and direct-to-computer recording applications.

The Allen & Heath Dante Networking Expansion Card

Use Allen & Heath’s Dante Networking Expansion Card to integrate your dLive, GLD, or iLive gear into other systems. This is a great tool for digital mic splitting, multi-track recording, and easy system scaling. This expansion card provides 64 channels of bi-directional audio at 48kHz.

Other Expansion Options

Using an M-DL-ADAPT interface, the Dante Networking Expansion Card can be fitted to any dLive I/O Port. The card also can be incorporated into a GLD mixer using its I/O Port, or into iLive series’ fixed format MixRacks (iDR-16, iDR-32, iDR-48, iDR-64) or expander (xDR-16), Port A/B in iLive modular MixRacks (iDR0, iDR10), and Port A of iLive modular surfaces when fitted with the new RAB-2 standard. (All external component options are sold separately.)

Allen & Heath Dante Networking Card Features

• NOTE: Requires AH-DL-ADAPT-A adapter card with use in dLive and Avantis consoles
• Audio networking option card for the dLive range
• Compatible with all 48 kHz Dante enabled devices
• 64 channel bi-directional audio plus control over CAT5
• Uses standard, off-the-shelf computer networking equipment
• Self discovery and auto-configuration of IP addresses
• Easy to add, name, remove and rearrange devices
• Wide range of Dante enabled equipment becoming available
• Secondary port for redundant network option
• Control port to bridge dLive or other network over Dante
• Sample accurate playback syncronisation
• Very low latency
• Gigabit ports
• Direct connection to computer for multitrack recording
• Dante Virtual Soundcard software replaces expensive hardware
• Dante Controller software available for setting up the network

• Dante Networking Expansion Card1

• Channels64x64 channels at 48kHz on an L3 ethernet infrastructure