Audio Interfaces
Dante Virtual Soundcard camera switching
Dante Virtual Soundcard brings the microphones on your Dante network to the Audio Manager machine. VRA listens to each channel and cuts the cameras to whoever is talking.
What VRA does with Dante Virtual Soundcard (VCS).
Recognised by name
VRA recognises DVS Receive channel pairs in WDM mode and Dante Virtual Soundcard in ASIO mode, and prepares the channel triggers from either in one pass.
WDM pairs come out in order
In WDM mode DVS lists numbered stereo pairs: DVS Receive 1-2, 3-4 and onwards. VRA sorts them by number, so 9-10 follows 7-8 rather than 1-2, and turns them into one run of single channels, one per microphone.
A trigger per microphone in one step
Accept the detected setup and choose how many channels to cover. VRA creates a trigger per channel, already bound to its device and channel, each with a placeholder command you swap for a camera angle.
Cameras cut to whoever is talking
When a mic passes its threshold, its trigger fires the camera angle, macro or playout command you gave it. Calibration measures the room's floor and the presenter's level, then sets the threshold from the gap between them.
ASIO mode is a Pro option
Reading DVS in ASIO mode needs the studio's ASIO setting in VRA, which is Windows only and a Pro plan option on request.
How to set it up.
Requirements
- Audio Manager on a Windows or macOS machine that can open the Dante Virtual Soundcard device.
- Dante Virtual Soundcard in WDM or ASIO mode installed and working in the operating system.
- The microphones already routed to those receive channels on your console or audio network.
Install Dante Virtual Soundcard in WDM or ASIO mode on the Audio Manager machine and route the studio microphones to its receive channels.
Start Audio Manager and check that the channels appear in the studio's audio devices.
In Audio Triggers, accept the detected setup and choose how many channels to cover, or map the channels by hand. Each trigger is bound to its channel and starts with a placeholder command.
Name each trigger for its microphone and replace the placeholder with the camera angle or macro it should fire.
Calibrate each mic, quiet first and then talking, and test every microphone before you turn on automatic switching.
Dante Virtual Soundcard (VCS) questions
Will VRA recognise a two-channel Dante Virtual Soundcard? +
No. Recognition only suggests a layout with more than one stereo pair, or more than one device. A single pair still works: map its two channels by hand.
Does VRA mix or route the Dante Virtual Soundcard audio? +
No. Your console and audio network keep the mixing and routing. Audio Manager only reads the levels of the input channels to see which microphone is open.
Can I map the channels by hand? +
Yes. Recognition is a shortcut. Audio Manager can use any input device it can open, and you can map each channel yourself.
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About Dante Virtual Soundcard (VCS).
Dante Virtual Soundcard turns a computer into a Dante endpoint, so receive channels from the studio's Dante network show up as WDM or ASIO inputs. It is the audio path VRA's own machine specs give as their example.
What you can do with this connection
Automated camera switching for radio
Switch cameras from microphone activity and prepare PTZ shots off air.
More infoThe products behind it.
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RME Digiface Dante
The RME Digiface Dante brings Dante mic channels into the computer over USB 3.0. VRA recognises its channel pairs and makes each mic a camera trigger.
RAVENNA
RAVENNA Receive arrives as numbered stereo pairs and RAVENNA ASIO as one device. VRA recognises both and turns each mic into a camera switching trigger.
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