Help setting up DVS

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So far I’ve been testing how to send signal from one iDR to another over Dante. Today I decided to set up recording on PC. Spent about 4h, but no luck so far. Maybe I’ve missed something or did not all I had to. What did I do:

  • opened Dante controller

  • started DVS, set to 48000, 24 bit, 10 ms

  • in ASIO tab set buffer to 256, latency 5 ms

  • in controller did patching from iDR tx to DVS rx

  • opened Sonar, selected ASIO driver

  • made some blank tracks, assigned inputs to appropriate DVS rx

  • on iLive did output patching 1-64 direct outs

  • armed Sonar for recording, but indicators showed no signal

  • tried to record … nothing was there

  • decided Sonar is kinda POS and downloaded Reaper demo

  • did input and output patching via matrix

  • armed channels- no luck, indicators not showing input

  • pressed REC, time was standing still (in Sonar it was running)

  • ran out of ideas so came here to ask what is wrong…

thanks in advance!

ddff

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Maybe dumb question, but did you enable DVS? The big button in the middle?

Just asking, cause that was my first fault…

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Don’t feel too bad if you make that mistake, took us a while to realise that was actually a button as well!

  • Jeff, A&H
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Yup,

took me for a while to identify the button, but that was not a problem in my case. I just forgot to plug ethernet cable from control port to dante audio port. So I got audio running finally, however not satisfied with results- got HP laptop with i3, 3 GB RAM but when recording more than one track it sounds gapped, pitch is changing, stops for a while, etc.

Maybe gotta look for some hardware that’s dedicated to audio recording, like JoeCo or something…

ddff

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Hmm. I am recording with an small Acer Laptop Aspire 1810TZ (Pentium Dual Core - not a really fast one) and had no problems so far.

Clock settings are right? Is Dante syncing to Ilive?

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Yes, it looks kinda funny, my FSC Lifebook P7230 (core duo 1,2 GHz, 2 GB RAM) could easy record 32 channels, it started to skip audio at 64 ch, but that is logical for old laptop. Clocks are OK, it’s just computer and/or operating system’s ability to handle huge amount of data, I think.

I also tried with one huge box- IBM IntelliStation dual xeon 3.xx GHz processor, 4 GB RAM, 140 GB ultra fast scsi disk, same problem- 64 channels can’t be recorded. Did everything Audinate recommends about operating system, checked DPC latency- it’s about 100 us - far below green line. Don’t have anything more serious than that arround, will continue experiments with different settings such as latency, buffer size, number of tracks, etc.

ddff

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Hi LV what cables you are using for dante? i had such problems when used regular cat5 cables when i have changed to shielded cat6 with Harting connectors everything fixed up.

agutin.com

2x iDR32 +MADI OPTION

MacBook,

desktop+2x RME HDSP MADI 2 X M DANTE CARDS

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The cable is 1m long cat5e. Don’t have cat6 arround, but do you think that’s critical for such short runs?

ddff

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Hi ddff

You do not have to use Cat6, but it’s always worth trying a different cable.

  • Jeff, A&H