neve1064 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 I need help/advice setting up my live recording rig. I need to take up to 25 track from a Yamaha DM1000 digital mixing console into my macbook pro running Logic 9. The Yamaha uses Mini-YGDAI cards, to add I/O in a wide variety of audio and network formats, located on the back of the console. There are so many options if you look on their page: http://www.yamahaproaudio.com/products/interfaces/ygdai_cards/ AES/EBU, MADI, Ethernet, Dante, Toslink, SDI, Cobranet, ADAT, TDIF, Optocore, and more! The mLan protocol was elegant. One cable plugged directly into the macbook from a mLan card. Now I need to choose amongst these different options. They used to have mLan cards but no more and I haven't found one (MY16-MLAN) for sale on eBay for a while. I realize this will most likely mean extra kit will be necessary to go between the card and the macbook. Any advice on which to choose? I read about the Audinate Dante MY 16 card. It looks very, very promising but before I dish out money I'd like to hear from others who have taken the plunge. Many thanks, N Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradpdx Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 I work for Audinate, and so have a definite bias I'll state up front. My name is Brad and I work for them out of Portland, Oregon. The Dante-MY16-AUD is just a little piece of what Dante is about. While the old MLan card gave you Firewire, Dante is really a complete networked audio system that scales way, way up. You can connect many Dante-enabled devices (and computers) together using ordinary computer networking gear, and share that connection with ordinary network traffic. Managing hundreds of channels is completely within scope for Dante. From a functional perspective, the Dante-MY16-AUD combined with Dante Virtual Soundcard would easily be equivalent or better than the MLan. You get 16 bi-directional channels @ 48kHz connected to your Mac using only a regular Ethernet cable plugged into the regular network port. You can easily add more Dante-MY16-AUD cards and devices, plug them all into a switch and build as big a system as you wish. The Dante Virtual Soundcard handles up to 64 simultaneous channels of audio (bi-directional). Later this summer we'll see the commercial release of the Dante PCIe card. That requires a Mac Pro of course, but provides 128 channels of audio at crazy low latency - under 2.9ms round trip including A/D - D/A conversions. If you are doing live overdubs, it's amazing. So that's my plug. Feel free to contact me at support (at) audinate.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neve1064 Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 Thank you, Brad. How much is the Dante card with the virtual software and where can I get it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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