lowdbrent wrote:Bob has stated many times that the Dante drivers are crap, cause too much latency. Odd. All of the Dante systems I install have less than .5ms latency in and out.
Of course you cannot buy a Dante system for the price of piece of crap MI preamps made in China. But a SAC system is not networkable the way Dante allows for. The flexibility and expandability of a Dante system blow away anything possible with SAC, and if one computer or device crashes, you won't lose the whole thing. Try that with SAC. Two different animals.
Yeah I understand what Dante can do. No need to explain.
I guess I just don't remember him saying much at all about Dante good or bad. I will say that the Dante Virtual Sound Card drivers are probably too slow (add too much latency) for live mixing and that was likely what Bob was speaking to at the time, I would suspect. Or at least they used to be. I have not had a chance to try them in a while in PC land. Maybe that has changed. But the link you posted before, shows the solution to that, just use a dedicated Dante hardware sound card.
To be fair Dante in and of itself does not provide the redundancy you're speaking of. It's just a digital transport protocol. As I'm sure you're aware. If someone really wants to spend the money you could set up a redundant SAC set up with two computers sitting on the Dante Network, either splitting up tasks or being redundant units. Of course there is not really an easy way to switch from machine A to B, as far as I'm aware of, but that is true of almost any Dante mixing system. Or at least the ones that are actually designed for live mixing with some sort of "console" involved anyway.
Sorry dude but you're really not comparing apples to apples here. SAC is a console, albeit a virtual one running on a Windows PC. Dante is an audio transport protocol. There are consoles that have Dante I/O of course and they seem to work very well. But if you want to be fair about it you really need to compare SAC to the other consoles, not the network protocol. And while I wouldn't say SAC is better than consoles like the CL series or QL series necessarily, I also wouldn't say they necessarily "blow away" SAC either. They all have their benefits and drawbacks just like any tools. Granted it would be very rare that given the option I would pick SAC over a nicely equipped CL series desk.
Of course now, I would put another application on that computer other than SAC, so all the benefits and drawbacks have changed. But even running AMP my choice would depend on what my needs were at the time. And the same would be true no matter what Dante equipped consoles we're talking about.