I suspect the latency is low enough for most FOH applications, and certainly would be no issue for livestream processing. But hopefully using USB will keep the price down compared to Dante hardware I/O. That introduces some reliability uncertainties as well as extra latency. It's a shame that it uses USB to operate. The dedicated software package available with the new Yamaha device has some cool features for presets and MIDI recall of scenes and plugin setups. You could use that to convert your "sends" from the main console to the livestream console over to Dante from the AES50 you said you are currently using. There are AES50 to Dante bridge devices available, and Midas makes a Dante card for their console mixers. They have several options for Soundgrid including a model that bridges Dante to Soundgrid. But by the time you purchased a capable PC, that Dante hardware card if you can find it, and bought a copy of SuperRack, you are approaching what a Waves Soundgrid setup costs. ![]() You could also use it with Waves SuperRack in Native mode if you wished. You could use it for the I/O, and then something like Reaper or Live Professor for the VST plugin host. This card, if you can find one, is ideal for getting audio in and out of a PC via Dante. You can perhaps still find one, but they seem to be more rare by the day. Yamaha themselves sold (or still sells) a rebranded version of this card. ![]() ![]() But that card has recently been discontinued. As for you question about available Dante cards for PCs - Audinate previously made a nice PCI Express Dante card for PCs that has 128 x 128 (in/out) channels. But in general it's less than DVS, but not as good as straight hardware Dante I/O would be. Exactly how much less depends on some things within the operating system you are using (Windows or Mac). USB is used for the plugin interface because it has slightly lower latency than DVS. Here is a series of YouTube videos produced by Yahama Global showcasing the new box. The Yamaha box pulls audio off the Dante network and sends it over to the PC on the USB interface for plugin processing, and then does the opposite by pulling the processed audio back from the PC over USB and putting it onto the Dante network. My reading on the new Yamaha RUio16-D unit tells me all of the audio processing occurs on the PC (or Mac) connected via the USB interface not inside the Yamaha box itself. Thanks in advance for any and all replies. Ability to use the M32 to multitrack record using Reaper Apologies for the missive I was hoping to bypass 20-questions and inevitable yes-buts. Robust, easy to turn on and off, Waves Tune Real-Time on selected M32 channels 2. Any suggestions on how to achieve both the following? 1. I’ve rejected Dante connection based on other advice in this forum. We could run SuperRack on a PC and connect via USB (I think…). If the USB card is replaced with the Waves WSG card, we lose the ability to multitrack record in the sanctuary using Reaper – something we do frequently to create special content in controlled settings (not Sundays). Obviously a Waves SuperRack combo would work. But the combo of PC, USB, Reaper, Waves Tune is tech-intensive and we seek a more robust solution that can be used by our less experienced techs. The tuned vocal channels are also available to the Video Room M32C. Obviously tweaking the USB to reduce latency, and eliminate clicks and dropouts is an ongoing challenge. ![]() We run Reaper on a USB connected PC and send the tuned vocals back to an unused channel. We’re experimenting using Waves Tune Real-Time with the sanctuary M32. Been working pretty good for the last pandemic-burdened year. Then the video sound tech can mix, effect, whatever independent of the sanctuary mix, all in real time. All that need happen is redirection of the channel inputs to AES50 instead of physical inputs – a carefully written snippet accomplishes this in one action. With this config the console settings of the M32 can be copied as a scene and loaded into the M32C as a seedfile for that particular service. Further, the routing in the sanctuary M32 is set to direct copy all the inputs and their channel allocation via AES50 to the M32C in the Video Room. Anyway… The D元2, M32 and M32C are all connected by AES50. The services are live-streamed and available afterward for YouTube viewing.) The M32C main LR output is sent to the video computer via USB. (We do not post-assemble/process the services for later publication. Next, we use an M32C in the Video Room to mix the audio content of our live video streams. Our church uses an M32 and D元2 in the main sanctuary. I seek some advice regarding Waves and Midas M32 consoles.
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