Letter from Lee Ellison, CEO
Audinate revolutionizes the way that AV systems are connected. We do this by transporting high quality media over standard IT networks. Our vision is creating a simple easy to use, connected AV world with Dante. Audinate now has over 50 OEMs who have licensed Dante. More products are coming to market at a faster pace, as our OEM partners recognize the end user demand and adoption of Dante. During this months‘Pro Light and Sound conference, we shall see over 10 new Dante enabled products announced to the market. A significant part of the OEM adoptions centers around the fact that consumers and AV OEMs want a solution that works today, using off the shelf switches, and also want a future path to AVB, while maintaining all the features and functionality Dante delivers.
Earlier this year Dante was once again recognized for its advanced capabilities and ease of use. Audinate’s MY-16-AUD Yamaha card won the Reader’s Choice Award in Pro-Sound News for best media networking technology, and the Dante Virtual Soundcard was recognized as the best recording software.
Coinciding with this years Integrated Systems Europe exhibition, Audinate, Bosch, Yamaha, TC Group, Peavey, and ASL hosted the AV Networking Congress. Participating in the event were several leading AV design consultants who shared their experiences of deploying Dante and digital media networks in several types of fixed installations. These included stadiums, universities, theatres and concert halls, voice evacuation systems, as well as large live touring events. Over a hundred installation contractors and design consultants participated in the day long event.
As networking experts, we take pride when our AV consumers, designers, installations contractors, and AV manufacturers describe Dante, as the way media networking should be done. Thanks again for connecting with Audinate.
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In The News
Audinate's Dante provides networking backbone for UAE's 40th National Day
The Official Ceremony for the UAE 40th National Day saw Zayed Sports Stadium full to capacity as thousands turned out to celebrate the achievements of the nation, and Audinate's Dante was there to make sure all the networked audio delivery functioned without a hitch.
AV Networking Congress
Strong Turnout at 2012 AV Networking Congress
It was evident from the beginning that the attendees to the 2012 AV Networking Congress were in for a unique day. The event tackled some of today’s most pressing digital media networking topics with leading AV Networking AV design consultants, and manufacturers. < http://www.audinate.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=321>
Awards and Recognition
Audinate’s Dante Wins Three Readers Choice Awards
For the second year in a row, Audinate’s patented Dante digital media networking technology has been recognized by the readers of Live Sound International magazine and prosoundweb.com as best Networking Technology with their Dante-MY16-AUD.
Audinate Hires New Director of Sales
Audinate is pleased to announce Dave Anderson as the new Director of Sales. Anderson brings a very successful career of sales leadership in the professional audio and video industries to his new position. During his 18 years with Avid, Anderson held various sales roles establishing professional audio, video, storage, and asset management technology products in the marketplace.
Audinate Co-Sponsors AES 44 Audio Networking Conference in San Diego
Largest event on Audio Networking took place in November
AES 44 features 17 papers on diverse topics related to networked audio, including five panel discussions industry veterans, plus three major technology demonstrations highlighting audio network control protocols, distributed performance, and a networked post-production master class. Audinate’s Dante networking will be demonstrated during the event. <
Update Your Dante Controller software
Dante Controller 3.2.0 has been released for both Windows and Mac
What's new in 3.2.0
- The Device View 'Config' tab has been renamed to 'Device Config', and includes a new control in the Sample Rate section: 'Pull-up/down'
- A new Device View tab, 'Network Config', allows supported devices to be toggled between 'Redundant' and 'Switched' modes, and allows supported devices to be assigned static IP addresses
- Stability and reliability improvements
Showcasing Dante
Yamaha and Dante help Inspire Young Innovators at Ideen Expo
Inspiring the science and technology professionals of the future is the purpose behind Ideen Expo, a nine day bi-annual event in Hannover, Germany, which seeks to stimulate young people with a wide range of ideas for their future education and careers. The event relied on a sophisticated and powerful Yamaha / Dante™ digital media networking system, designed to be set up and operated very simply.
Aimed at 10-22 year olds, this year’s Ideen Expo was the third time that the event had taken place. Opened by German president Christian Wulff, the 80,000m2 exhibition attracted over 310,000 people and featured a wide range of exhibits, including a several live performance stages, a fairground, numerous stalls and other interactive exhibits.
Hamburg-based Neumann & Müller supplied the event’s huge technical infrastructure, which, under the guidance of the company’s Roger Clarke, took 85 staff 20,000 person-hours to install. Fundamental to the event’s success was a five kilometre, star topology Gigabit fibre optic network, which carried a range of audio, video and lighting control signals. The audio included announcements, voice alarms, background music, communications and control for 130 amplifiers, including all of those on the live stages.
The complex requirement of the installation was ideal for Yamaha DME series digital mixing engines running Dante. A Yamaha DME64N with three Dante-MY16-AUD interface cards handled a 32x32 matrix to control inputs and outputs. This transmitted all signals into four network rings, which featured eight DME24N, as well as Yamaha PM5D and LS9 digital mixing consoles, all featuring Dante cards.
“When we developed Dante, we delivered an easy to use, standards-based compliant IP over Ethernet networking solution for the professional audio/visual (AV) industry,” says Audinate CEO Lee Ellison. “Ideen Expo showcased major advancements in AV and it seemed appropriate that Dante and Yamaha were the foundation behind the event.”
Event technical director Martin Wunderlich was very pleased with the system, saying. “The decision to use the Yamaha / Dante combination was absolutely right. The network was easy to set up, program and it worked flawlessly.
“We also programmed a smart DME user interface, controlled using a touchscreen, for the official security staff. If required, at any time they could interrupt the audio at any stage or location and use the microphone in the control room to broadcast a message. In the cases of most announcements, the music level was dimmed by the DMEs onboard volume duckers. However if it had been an emergency, it would have cut altogether.”
“It was an extraordinary event,” says Arthur Koll, Commercial Audio Sales Engineer at Yamaha Music Europe GmbH. “The audio, lighting and video infrastructure alone took up 21 trucks and it was an excellent opportunity to show that a Yamaha / Dante digital media networking system can satisfy very complex requirements, yet also be very straightforward to install, set up and operate.”
