The new PCIe ALP-DANTE sound card offers many unique features that have been designed to empower professional audio users who operate Dante networks, paving the way to a large panel of critical audio applications. This ALP-DANTE card was developed using Digigram’s sturdy platform, which powers all cards within the ALP-X range, with the difference – unique on the market – that this card is a 4 Ethernet port fanless design that supports up to 64 channels of playback and 64 recording channels to/from a Dante network, in a low-profile form factor.

This full-height PCIe card provides a solution to address audio applications where space and reliability are at stake. In addition to the two Ethernet ports which secure a seamless Dante network redundancy for use cases where reliability is paramount, the ALP-DANTE has 2 Ethernet switch ports for easier connectivity to other Dante/AES67 devices. In switching mode one port is used as a primary Ethernet connection with 3 switching ports, and in redundancy mode there is a Primary and a Secondary port, both associated with a respective switching port.

The card supports up to 32 input and 32 output stereo streams (64 x 64 channels) at 44.1kHz and 48kHz, 32 x 32 channels at 88.2kHz and 96kHz, or 16 x 16 channels at 176.4kHz and 192kHz. All channels are PCM at 16, 24, or 32-bits with up to 2000 samples per channel (41.7ms at 48 kHz). Several cards can be installed in the same workstation to increase the channel count and deploy large structures.

The ALP-DANTE card supports Windows and Linux environments to address multiple applications regardless of the operating systems. Lastly, the card seamlessly integrates Dante networks thanks to the usual Dante Controller interface, capitalizing on Digigram’s decades of expertise in audio-over-IP.