Dante A/V Flashcards
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What is Dante?
Dante is a networking technology that sends high-quality audio and video (A/V) signals over standard Ethernet networks. It replaces traditional point-to-point cables with a flexible, scalable digital network
What is Dante Controller and what does it do?
Dante Controller is free software that shows all Dante A/V devices on the network. It lets you connect signals between them by clicking—no physical patching required.
It’s like a digital map where you just draw lines to connect speakers, microphones, and video sources—like wiring a city with a touchscreen.
What is Dante Virtual Soundcard (DVS)?
Dante Virtual Soundcard turns your computer into a Dante A/V device. It sends and receives audio over the network with no extra hardware.
It’s like giving your computer invisible audio cables that connect it directly to a professional A/V system.
What is Dante Via and what does it do?
Dante Via connects software apps and non-Dante USB devices to a Dante network. It lets you route audio from things like Zoom or Spotify into a professional A/V setup.
How does Dante help with real-time signal routing?
Dante delivers A/V signals instantly across the network with almost no delay. You can change where signals go in real-time, even while everything is running.
What is an IP address in simple terms? And why do Dante devices need IP addresses?
It’s like a digital street address that tells devices where to send and receive data.
Dante needs it so So they can find each other on the network and send audio data to the right place.
What is digital audio? And how is analog sound turned into digital audio?
It’s sound that has been turned into numbers (data) so it can be stored, processed, or sent by digital devices.
A microphone picks up sound waves, and an ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter) samples those waves and turns them into numbers.
What is audio sampling? And What does the sample rate mean?
It’s the process of measuring a sound wave at regular intervals to turn it into numbers.
It’s how many times per second the sound is measured. A common rate is 48,000 times per second (48 kHz).
What is bit depth?
It’s how precise each audio sample is
how many different volume levels each sample can represent.
