Audinate's Dante at Prolight + Sound 2012

Eight Audinate OEM partners announced a total of 13 Dante-enabled products at this year's Prolight + Sound, the international trade fair for the event-technology sector, held in March in Frankfurt.

"What is truly amazing is the wide range of different Dante products that were launched at the show", says Lee Ellison, Audinate CEO. "It seems that no matter what you are looking for, there is now a Dante enabled product on the market." Ellison added, "The market is dictating what it wants, and Dante seems to be the answer."

Products launched at Prolight + Sound included:

Yamaha Commercial Audio debuted the new CL Series of digital consoles featuring remote I/O for a faster, more responsive Yamaha system solution. All three CL models in the Centralogic series, only differentiated by frame size and input capability, feature 24 mix buses, eight matrix buses, plus stereo and mono outputs, and 16 DCAs. The footprint of all three CL consoles is small and has been developed specifically for sound reinforcement applications.

Symetrix announced the SymNet Edge, a significant update to its long line of DSP solutions. Symetrix designed Edge to meet the I/O capacity requirements of the bulk of commercial sound installations. Edge features four configurable I/O card slots, up to 16 channels total of local I/O, plus 128 (64x64) channels of Audinate's Dante network audio.

Harman Soundcraft is extending its range of digital audio transport option cards for its Vi, Si Compact, and Si1/2/3 series digital consoles with plans in place for Dante network cards, following an agreement reached between Soundcraft and Audinate. All options should ship later this year.

Nexo announced the new NXDT104 Dante audio plug-in card for the NXAMP, enabling NEXO loudspeaker systems to explore an VB-ready digital networking solution. The NXDT104 will distribute digital audio plus integrated control data, automatically configuring its network interface and finding other Dante devices on the network.

AuviTran is adding Dante technology to their Audio Toolbox product range. Audinate was chosen to accelerate AuviTran's development towards new networking technologies. AuviTran has used EtherSound technology and now adds Audinate's Dante networking to its networking solution portfolio.

JoeCo Limited introduced the new BlackBox BBR64-Dante Recorder that can record or replay 64 channels.

Four Audio launched their new DBO1. The DBO1 is a Dante enabled breakout box with eight analog output channels. It allows the user to go from Dante to analog signals in a small 1U box. The DBO1 is operated by simply connecting it to a Dante network and configuring the breakout box via the Dante controller.

TEQSAS announced a new Dante AES breakout module for their cyberTEQ - m-family of digital audio interconnect solutions.