Member mindopera Posted April 22, 2018 Member Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 Has anyone successfully outputted multi channels of audio out of Dante Virtual Sound (DVS) card using WATCHOUT? I am doing a large museum exhibit that has its audio system set up using a Dante and I have six channels of audio that I’m trying to push from a WO server computer using the Date Virtual Sound card, which is digital audio over IP using a second NIC on the WO server PC. I have done multichannel analog audio with WO many times, but using Dante and WO I can only access one stero pair at the same time. In the WATCHPOINT software on the server computer I can pull the audio device menu down and see 16 channels (8 stereo pairs) of Dante audio but since they’re all separate I can only access one stereo set. Has anyone successfully accessed all the channels using DVS? If you have, can you help me understand how to accomplish this? It would be much appreciated even if it requires me purchasing additional hardware. Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myngus Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 I tried it and failed. could only get 2 channels. this was last year, before 6.2 came out, so it might be different now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mindopera Posted April 23, 2018 Author Member Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 I just want to say with the help of fellow WO designer Sean Fluster and my onsite audio team I was able to get Dante Virtual Sound Card completely working with 8 separate channels in WO. I intend on writing a full report about how to accomplish this because it is a very useful audio tool, but I am moving to the next project so it might be a few weeks before I get it written down. the good news is that it can be done and it just takes a little finessing. stay tuned 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DavidA Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 Thanks, mindopera! We are looking forward learning your take on Dante. Note that we are also working on an informational document to cover the use of Dante in WATCHOUT. Best regards, David David Aleksandersen Commercial Support Manager Dataton AB +46 70 552 32 30 david@dataton.se www.dataton.com 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balage Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 HI! I ran into an interesting mistake (at least for me). I work in a theater in Hungary, where audio and video are treated separately for the time being. I tried to test together, connected a Watchout 6.5 / dante virtual soundcard (laptop) to a system (without DHCP), a watchpax 20 device and a yamaha rio 32/24 i / o box, they saw each other perfectly and on the main timeline the sound worked perfectly on 8 channels, but if i used it on the auxiliary timeline then only the first two dante channels were willing to sound. Is this a bug or could I have spoiled something? has anyone encountered a similar error? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted June 11, 2021 Moderator Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 It is probably not the issue, but to rule it out, did you check the audio output assignments in each audio cue on the aux timeline? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balage Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 I did this test for 1 week temporarily because I was just wondering if I could put them together (the next step would be to set the fixed ip addresses in the system). I know the file on the timeline needs to be set which dante audio channel to use, so that wasn’t the problem, I set them from 1 to 8. However, I will put the system together again sometime in the near future for more serious testing, and then I will pay more attention to this multi-band problem ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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