If you had 4 Dante AVIO adapters: analogue, digital or USB, how would you use them to simplify or improve your studio? Audinate want to hear your suggestions and if they like your suggestion best they will give you 4 adapters of your choice and a copy of Dante Virtual Soundcard.

In live sound and large facilities Dante has been the breakthrough audio technology of the last ten years. The advantages are easy to see. Inexpensive cabling, use of existing network infrastructure, easy setup, high channel counts, uncompressed audio, low latency and a very large ecosystem of compatible hardware. We could go on. If you are moving audio around a large site, have lots of users or need to distribute audio in complex or changing ways then Dante offers advantages which are difficult to resist.

Many of these advantages don’t really apply to the small to medium sized studios in which the majority of music is recorded and mixed. However that isn’t to say that Dante doesn’t offer distinct advantages over traditional analogue cabling, just look at James’ article about his upgraded headphone monitoring system to see how even the smallest studio can benefit from the simplicity and flexibility of a Dante-based system.

Audinate AVIO Adapters

AVIO adapters are a simple, low cost way to add hardware to a Dante network, they come if six flavours:

Balanced analogue input, available in stereo or mono versions

Balanced analogue output, available in stereo or mono versions

AES3 stereo in and out on a single adapter

2 channel USB IO

Over To You

What would you use Dante AVIO adaptors for in your studio? We won’t give our suggestions here but when thinking about it keep in mind that there are several advantages which Dante can bring to any size of system so while you might not have to share audio between tens or even hundreds of users or install hundred metre multicores every time you work, Dante controller is a big, software patchbay for Dante devices. Using Dante you can duplicate signals as many times as you like without the issues you get splitting analogue signals and Dante can transport digital signals without reference to word clock, all things which might inform your ideas.

To enter the giveaway head over to the Win Page or click the button above to offer your suggestions for how these adapters could benefit your studio workflow.