Adam Greene
Member
Greetings, I've not posted here in several years, but I wanted to hear from the community on something I've jumped headlong into. I have a Midas M32r mixer as my studio interface. Not only for the high channel count, but so that latency would not be an issue. I just monitor straight out of the board during tracking and it has really nice built in effects, eq's and dynamics processing. The preamps are decent also. And you can easily add external preamps as there are 6 aux ins as well. However, I have noticed that the lowest latency I could get is still unusable in real time, going through my laptop pc and daw (reaper). It was pretty high end laptop a few years ago, but I won't bore you with the specs.
So, pretty impulsively, when I saw the price go down very significantly, I bought an X-Dante expansion card last week. I was hoping to get better real time audio performance. The goal was to be able to use my usb midi controller and virtual instruments on another computer and monitor the vsti's. In the past, I've just had to monitor the voices in my inexpensive Keyboard (Alesis Recital Pro) which has okay sounds , but when you are trying to lay midi tracks and hear what it may sound like in real time, it's a bummer. Also, the midi over usb is very limiting, so I would have to either get the keyboard close to the computer or vise versa. Very inconvenient. I've heard it said that recording with dante was no better and sometimes even worse than usb. I'm here to tell you that at least for me, there has been a major improvement in real time performance with dante. So, I will be able to monitor the tracking session out of the daw now with a few basic plugins if I want to. So, now I have a dante enabled mixer, 2 laptops with Dante virtual sound card and one copy of Via that I can use on either machine, just not at the same time. I can tell you that the latency on Via, makes it unusable. It does not work as an ASIO driver the way DVS does. If it did, it would be a game changer, because any hardware device or software application can to seen on the network with Via. The possibilities are endless. So, after some research, I came across a FREE application called rtp-midi by Tobias Erichsen. Simple but very nice. Unlike Dante, It allows midi messages to be sent over ethernet or wireless networks. Now I can link the computers together and send midi from the controller to one computer then to the main recording computer. Best of all, it is in very low latency. Now I can monitor using the virtual instrument in the daw of my main computer. I know there folks here who are much more knowledgeable about networking than I am. So, I want some feedback on what else I may be able to do with networking.
Thanks,
Adam Greene
https://www.audinate.com
https://www.tobias-erichsen.de › software › rtpmidi
So, pretty impulsively, when I saw the price go down very significantly, I bought an X-Dante expansion card last week. I was hoping to get better real time audio performance. The goal was to be able to use my usb midi controller and virtual instruments on another computer and monitor the vsti's. In the past, I've just had to monitor the voices in my inexpensive Keyboard (Alesis Recital Pro) which has okay sounds , but when you are trying to lay midi tracks and hear what it may sound like in real time, it's a bummer. Also, the midi over usb is very limiting, so I would have to either get the keyboard close to the computer or vise versa. Very inconvenient. I've heard it said that recording with dante was no better and sometimes even worse than usb. I'm here to tell you that at least for me, there has been a major improvement in real time performance with dante. So, I will be able to monitor the tracking session out of the daw now with a few basic plugins if I want to. So, now I have a dante enabled mixer, 2 laptops with Dante virtual sound card and one copy of Via that I can use on either machine, just not at the same time. I can tell you that the latency on Via, makes it unusable. It does not work as an ASIO driver the way DVS does. If it did, it would be a game changer, because any hardware device or software application can to seen on the network with Via. The possibilities are endless. So, after some research, I came across a FREE application called rtp-midi by Tobias Erichsen. Simple but very nice. Unlike Dante, It allows midi messages to be sent over ethernet or wireless networks. Now I can link the computers together and send midi from the controller to one computer then to the main recording computer. Best of all, it is in very low latency. Now I can monitor using the virtual instrument in the daw of my main computer. I know there folks here who are much more knowledgeable about networking than I am. So, I want some feedback on what else I may be able to do with networking.
Thanks,
Adam Greene
rtpMIDI | Tobias Erichsen
Audinate | Dante Audio Networking, AV's Leading Technology
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