It sounds very technical and hardly relevant to everyday life. 2) Outgoing flows do not have a QoS / DSCP tag And unfortunately this option is not available with the DVS and cannot be purchased or configured on request. It is not without reason, however, that all professional Dante devices have two network ports so that an audio connection does not get interrupted in the event of a network problem. And just for fun, recording 64 channels at a concert so that you have some material at home to mix with works wonderfully only with the primary network. Because playing a little background music is also possible through one network. Depending on the purpose, you will not mind this or you will not notice it at all. While two network cards can be configured in the Dante Controller for the primary and secondary network, there is unfortunately no such option in the Dante Virtual Soundcard. In order to show you the downsides and enable you to make a solid decision, here are my five not so pleasant points about the DVS: 1) No Redundancy Nonetheless, there are a few points that are not entirely obvious if you haven't used them before. I primarily use it as an interface between my calibration software and the microphone interface or for feeding into the respective sound system.īut even in everyday (sound) life, it can be used to play music into the system, or record a few channels, or intentionally generate 64 channels of Dante multicast traffic to test the network! I can warmly recommend DVS for the few dollars and use it myself every day. That's why I have the Dante Virtual Soundcard installed on each of my PCs. Unfortunately, the price jump is huge, especially since both solutions basically transport the same (identical) audio data into or out of your PC. The next level for such a multi-channel interface would be a PCIe card like this one from Yamaha *.

Virtual sound card driver