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  • 2011/10/18 at 10:04 pm #22978
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    So far I’ve been testing how to send signal from one iDR to another over Dante. Today I decided to set up recording on PC. Spent about 4h, but no luck so far. Maybe I’ve missed something or did not all I had to. What did I do:

    – opened Dante controller
    – started DVS, set to 48000, 24 bit, 10 ms
    – in ASIO tab set buffer to 256, latency 5 ms
    – in controller did patching from iDR tx to DVS rx
    – opened Sonar, selected ASIO driver
    – made some blank tracks, assigned inputs to appropriate DVS rx
    – on iLive did output patching 1-64 direct outs
    – armed Sonar for recording, but indicators showed no signal
    – tried to record … nothing was there
    – decided Sonar is kinda POS and downloaded Reaper demo
    – did input and output patching via matrix
    – armed channels- no luck, indicators not showing input
    – pressed REC, time was standing still (in Sonar it was running)
    – ran out of ideas so came here to ask what is wrong…

    thanks in advance!

    ddff

    2011/10/19 at 8:24 am #29764
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    Maybe dumb question, but did you enable DVS? The big button in the middle?
    Just asking, cause that was my first fault…

    2011/10/19 at 9:06 am #29765
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    Don’t feel too bad if you make that mistake, took us a while to realise that was actually a button as well!

    – Jeff, A&H

    2011/10/19 at 9:37 am #29766
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    Yup,

    took me for a while to identify the button, but that was not a problem in my case. I just forgot to plug ethernet cable from control port to dante audio port. So I got audio running finally, however not satisfied with results- got HP laptop with i3, 3 GB RAM but when recording more than one track it sounds gapped, pitch is changing, stops for a while, etc.
    Maybe gotta look for some hardware that’s dedicated to audio recording, like JoeCo or something…

    ddff

    2011/10/19 at 6:38 pm #29772
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    Hmm. I am recording with an small Acer Laptop Aspire 1810TZ (Pentium Dual Core – not a really fast one) and had no problems so far.
    Clock settings are right? Is Dante syncing to Ilive?

    2011/10/19 at 7:31 pm #29841
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    Yes, it looks kinda funny, my FSC Lifebook P7230 (core duo 1,2 GHz, 2 GB RAM) could easy record 32 channels, it started to skip audio at 64 ch, but that is logical for old laptop. Clocks are OK, it’s just computer and/or operating system’s ability to handle huge amount of data, I think.
    I also tried with one huge box- IBM IntelliStation dual xeon 3.xx GHz processor, 4 GB RAM, 140 GB ultra fast scsi disk, same problem- 64 channels can’t be recorded. Did everything Audinate recommends about operating system, checked DPC latency- it’s about 100 us – far below green line. Don’t have anything more serious than that arround, will continue experiments with different settings such as latency, buffer size, number of tracks, etc.

    ddff

    2011/10/21 at 3:07 am #29853
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    Hi LV what cables you are using for dante? i had such problems when used regular cat5 cables when i have changed to shielded cat6 with Harting connectors everything fixed up.

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    desktop+2x RME HDSP MADI 2 X M DANTE CARDS

    2011/10/21 at 11:48 pm #29859
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    The cable is 1m long cat5e. Don’t have cat6 arround, but do you think that’s critical for such short runs?

    ddff

    2011/10/24 at 9:10 am #29870
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    Hi ddff

    You do not have to use Cat6, but it’s always worth trying a different cable.

    – Jeff, A&H

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