Audio Interfaces
RME Digiface Dante for automated camera switching
The RME Digiface Dante brings your Dante microphone channels into the studio computer over USB. VRA turns each of those channels into a camera trigger, so the shot follows whoever is talking.
What VRA does with RME Digiface Dante.
Recognised by name
VRA recognises the RME Digiface Dante USB 3.0 channel pairs. It also recognises RME ASIO devices in the MADIface, Fireface and Digiface families.
Pairs in channel order
The WDM driver presents the Digiface Dante as a row of stereo pairs. VRA puts them in device order, with the numbers sorted the way you read them, and splits them into single channels before it suggests the triggers.
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.
Dante routing stays in Dante
VRA reads the channels the driver presents. Subscribing the microphones to the Digiface Dante happens in your Dante tools, not in VRA.
How to set it up.
Requirements
- Audio Manager on a Windows or macOS machine that can open the RME Digiface Dante device.
- The RME Digiface Dante driver installed and working in the operating system.
- The microphones already routed to those receive channels on your console or audio network.
Install the RME Digiface Dante driver 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.
RME Digiface Dante questions
Should I use the WDM or the ASIO driver for the Digiface Dante? +
VRA recognises both. ASIO also needs the studio's ASIO mode in VRA, which is Windows only and a Pro plan option on request.
Does VRA mix or route the RME Digiface Dante 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.
RME
About RME Digiface Dante.
RME Digiface Dante connects a computer to Dante and MADI audio. Its driver exposes the incoming studio channels that Audio Manager uses for microphone detection.
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.
More integrations.
Dante Virtual Soundcard (VCS)
Dante Virtual Soundcard lists its channels as WDM pairs or one ASIO device. VRA reads either mode and makes each Dante mic a camera switching trigger.
RME ASIO
One RME MADIface, Fireface or Digiface carries every studio mic over one ASIO driver. VRA reads that block and makes each channel a camera trigger.
Check your studio setup with us.
Tell us your camera models, video switcher and radio automation. We will check the connections and show you the workflow that fits your station.