User guide

Dante Controller User Guide
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Contents
About Audinate 8
About Dante 8
Introduction 9
About Dante Controller 9
What's New in version 3.4 9
v3.4.0 9
v3.2.9 10
v3.2.8 10
Minimum System Requirements 10
General 10
Windows 10
Mac OSX 11
OperatingSystem Updates 11
Firewall Configuration 11
Monitor Requirements 11
Installing Dante Controller 12
Downloading Dante Controller 12
Installing Dante Controller on Windows 12
Installing Dante Controller on Mac OSX 12
Uninstalling Dante Controller 12
Windows 13
Mac OS X 13
Dante Basics 14
Discovery and auto-configuration 14
Automatic network configuration 14
Automatic discovery 14
Differentiating between input and output channels 14
Device Names and Channel Labels 14
Rules for Names and Labels 15
Routing Audio 15
Routing Terminology 15
Subscription 16
Redundancy 16
Audio Formats 17
Flows 17
Advanced Routing: Using Multicast 18
Clock Synchronization 18
Dante Clock Types 18
Clock Settings 18
Slave to External Word Clock 18