Dante-enabled Product Catalog

AX Center It's the audio interface that dreams are made of, as it unites the distinguished audio quality of pristine Digital Audio Denmark AD & DA conversion with the renowned transparency and musicality of the DAD mic preamps. It's all about capturing the source truthfully and get it into your DAW exactly as it is. But that's only the beginning of this journey through the various applications covered by AX Center. On the analog side, two XLR / 1/4" Jack combo connectors on the front for connecting microphones and instruments, you can add two 8 ch. mic/line A/D cards for 16 mic inputs and you have the perfect interface for a small studio or location recording. Or add one 8 ch. D/A card for an additional 8 analog outputs and you have the perfect interface for mixing in 7.1.4 ATMOS format. With one 8 ch. line A/D card and one 8 ch. D/A card, you have the perfect mastering converter. And all along you have two headphone connections where all sources in the system can be easily monitored. Included on the rear panel are a host of connectivity, covering Thunderbolt, Dante AoIP, MADI, ADAT, S/PDIF and Word Clock. In total - and fully expanded - you can max out AX Center with a staggering 984 input and output channels.

Core 256 is a digital router and monitoring interface with 256 ch. Thunderbolt 3 I/O, 256 ch. Dante AoIP I/O, MADI 64 ch. BNC I/O, 128 ch. 128 ch. MADI SFP I/O module option and 16 ch. ADAT dual TosLink I/O with 256x64 ch. Pro|Mon summing and speaker eq processing.

The Thunder|Core-driven Core 256 does not take up much space, but the power you can squeeze out of this little box is might make your jaw drop to the floor. With tons of channels, a wide palette of digital connectivity, built-in SPQ processing, Eucon control compatibility, internal summing engine and drivers for macOS and Windows 10, it is a pristine digital audio interface by any measure and for just about any application.

AX64 is a Multi-format Audio A/D and D/A converter, router and monitoring interface with 256 ch. Thunderbolt 3 I/O, 256 ch. Dante AoIP I/O, MADI 64 ch. BNC I/O, 128 ch. MADI SFP I/O module option and 16 ch. ADAT dual TosLink I/O with 256x64 ch. and 8 slots for optional multi-format DAD I/O cards. Pro|Mon summing and speaker eq processing.

DX32R is your versatile digital audio Swiss knife - an interface and matrix designed for multiple audio applications such as multi-room recording studios, post-production facilities and audio distribution installations. It allows you to route all digital input and output and manage them on a mono channel basis within a single unit or a combination of units.

With near zero latency, the DX32R can be used to expand I/O channel count and interface digital components, providing a high quality bridge between AES/EBU, MADI and the Dante IP audio network.

DX32R include a 384x384 multiplexer, enabling all digital inputs and outputs to be routed in any combination; this enables the unit to also split signals for advanced signal distribution.

The DX32R IP Audio protocol is based on the robust tried-and-tested Dante™ digital audio network technology, and will interoperate with products of other brands that comply with Dante.

The protocol is compliant with the AES67 standard for AoIP. The Dante and NTP IP Audio formats provide fast, flexible, and economical audio routing via IP and are compatible with the AX32 AD/DA converter, and other Dante devices. The IP Audio routing provides low latency, tightly synchronized, transport of uncompressed audio over Gigabit IP Ethernet Layer 3 networks using off the shelf switches, and routers for audio routing via one or more sub-nets.

A total of 512 channels can be routed on a 1 Gigabit network, and more if the network capacity is higher.

DX32R is TCP/IP controlled via one of the two Ethernet ports vi the DADman Control software available for both Windows and OSX.

The routing of the IP audio via Dante is done by using the Audinate Dante controller software.

AX32 already support 64 channels of Dante IP Audio via an optional module, but in an effort to meet demand for an even higher channel count, our an optional expansion card adds another 128 channels to your digital audio-routing matrix.

Further, with eight slots available for expansion cards, you could ultimately have up to 1,088 Dante/AES67 channels, including the 64 channels that comes as standard, at 48 kHz.

The Dante expansion card also offers sample rate conversion on all channels as well as dual redundancy network ports in order to maximize reliability, reducing the risk of losing valuable production time.

Independent Sample Rate Conversion

The Dante expansion card features per-card sample rate conversion, which by using more cards allows several independent audio networks that run on individual clocks and sample rates to be connected to and unified in a single AX32 unit.

This naturally unleashes a wealth of possibilities for distributing audio across sources and destinations on highly complex setups that e.g. involve sending a feed to an OB truck, while recording at a different sample rate and sending yet another feed to a FOH console or an in-ear monitoring system.

Simply adding more Dante channels may sound trivial, but once you start to think about the actual problems that this amount of channels in combination with independent sample rate conversion is capable of solving, it’s a quite significant improvement of the overall system.

For instance, the new Dante card will immediately be able to solve real-world challenges in regard to high channel counts when working with Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite, as well as in recording studios where Dante based monitoring systems are used, but there is a need to record at a different sample rate or in Live applications where there Dante networks have to be kept physically separated when operating on different clocks.

The internal sample rate converters on the new Dante cards have been developed in-house and we have never compromised on the quality of our AD/DA converters – or internal sample rate conversion within the digital domain. ‘Digital’ is simply part of our brand name and we take that very seriously!

Applications

- Live & Events

- Film Production (Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite)

- Broadcast

- Music Production

Highlights

- 128 channels @ 48 kHz / 64 channels @ 96 kHz / 32 channels @ 192 kHz

- Independent Sample Rate Conversion

- Dual Redundancy Ethernet Ports

- AES67 Support

- Up to 8 cards in a Single AX32 Mainframe

Details

The Dante card can operate either as a single 128x128 channel interface with a switch for the two Ethernet connectors or redundantly, where the two Ethernet connecters are connected to different networks each carrying 128x128 channels. If more cards are installed, each card can be connected to a different network or more cards can be connected to the same network via an external Ethernet switch or by bridging the network between the cards when operating in non-redundant mode.

The Dante card can operate in Dante mode or AES67 mode with support for discovery via SAP. In Dante mode, Dante Domain Manager (DDM) is supported for enhanced network management functionality. Configuration of the card is managed via DADman.

In a world that seems to be gradually moving towards working and mixing 'in the box', there are still situations where hands-on control is second to none.

Monitor control is one of those cases. Enter MOM - our Monitor Operating Module.

MOM is the perfect, tactile match for one or more AVID MTRX, AVID MTRX Studio, AX32, DX32, Penta 720, and Penta 721s units equipped with the PRO|MON|3 monitor control license. The MOM is a remote control, connected via Ethernet, and no audio is actually passing through the unit. The audio-routing magic happens within the AX32 or DX32R and is set up via the DADman software. But once you connect the MOM, the magic now resides right at your fingertips. Main Features:
MOM will give you everything you would expect from a first-grade hardware monitor-controller:

Large Top-Quailty Rotary Knob
Switching Between Different Sources
Switching Between Different Monitor Configurations (from Mono to Atmos)
Mute/Solo Individual Monitor Channels
Talkback
Dim
Cut
Reference Level

The DAD DX32 is a versatile digital audio bridge and router interface designed for multiple audio applications such as multi-room recording studios, post-production facilities and audio distribution installations. It allows all digital input and output routing to be managed on a mono channel basis within a single unit or a combination of units.

The DAD AX32 allows no-compromise audio recording, mastering, post production, and future-proof archiving A new feature is the inclusion of IP audio capabilities handling up to 512 channels on a 10 gigabit per second Ethernet link.