I can not access my panel at the moment, but a friend, buying an SQ5, is asking me which Dante card to look for. I see only the 64×64 card on-line but I think there were a few other choices once upon a time. I may have one of those in my panel.
Any thoughts on whether my friend should look for a used card or go right for the 64×64? He will not be a heavy Dante user.
One common use for Dante tends to be multi-track recording. It’s very easy to use up a lot of I/O doing that and still want more I/O for other Dante uses (like plugin processing via channel inserts, etc). So depending on how many sources your friend expects to mix regularly, a 32×32 card may quickly become too limiting. Of course if the person doesn’t expect to mix more than around 24 or so channels, then a 32×32 card could likely do both multitrack recording and have enough left over I/O for other functions. But if the person expects to be mixing close to or more than 32 channels regularly, then the 64×64 card is probably the best choice. That’s just my 2 cents on the question however……
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