iLive and Dante Virtual Sound Card with live Trax

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Hi there,

Hope you are all well and nice to meet.

I’ve inherited the sound role in my local church and I have some novice questions.

I want to run Harrison Live Trax on PC as a DAW,using Dante Virtual Sound Card software as the middleman.
I have these two programmes installed on the PC.

Should I be able to connect over ethernet to the ilive surface or rack and make this setup work? Or have i missed anything else that may be needed?
Has anyone else done this and have any tips?

According to A&H, “I should be able to integrate Live Trax for audio streaming only using a third party protocol like Dante, and it will work just like any other DAW, but without MIDI features”

*I already use iLive Editor on the same pc so I know that it’s speaking to the surface.
*There is no physical dante card installed in the system port B.

Thanks V much

lynbai

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It doesn’t work without the Dante card.
No audio will get send through the control network.

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Ah OK thanks for confirming. I had imagined that the VSC exists to replace a physical card but I probably need to read up a bit more on the topic. They’re pretty expensive from what I can see so probably not an option right now.
Can I ask, can you suggest any software based method of recording all ilive inputs together or as individual tracks and saving/exporting? That was my main interest in the Live Trax, along with the virtual sound check. Thanks

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Without the physical Dante card installed in the iLive system, (or any other audio out medium like Waves) there is no option I’m aware of for recording/playback for VSC, or other DAW use. There are occasionally some used Dante cards that pop up for sale. There are some Facebook groups that have items listed occasionally as well as marketplace and ebay. Being the older system iLive can only use the 96Khz version (64x64) Dante. I use Reaper with our system, we record for archiving and training purposes.

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Thanks very much. Really helpful. OK I will keep an eye out.
You guys have probably saved me hours of head scratching :slight_smile:
Very much appreciated.

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I better correct myself here, for the iLive, you will need the 48kHz M-Dante card not the 96 version. The 96 fits the newer dLive and other systems.

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You can edit your post above to correct it.

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Ah noted, thanks for the correction. :+1:

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FYI - it seems the current “used” price on Ebay for a A&H M-Dante card for the iLive is about $500.

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Hi, thanks. Yep similar here in UK. Out of budget for now. I will have to find another way. All good fun :slight_smile:

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Thanks Steffen, however I didn’t/don’t have the ‘edit post’ pencil available for the 1st comment, only the 2nd one where I corrected myself.
Is it due to post count?

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I can edit the initial posts in threads that I started.

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Off topic here, Steffen I looked back and noticed since the conversion to the new forum format, my 1st 6 posts, including a new topic, don’t offer/show me any edit option. My 7th post and later now offer me the edit option. I should be good now going forward.