Channel Mapping
Most consumer audio applications are stereo, with two channels of audio – left and right. When Dante Via pipes audio between applications, by default it connects left outputs to left inputs, and right outputs to right inputs.
For applications and hardware devices with more than two channels, Dante Via connects channels sequentially - 1 to 1, 2 to 2, 3 to 3 and so on. More specific channel routing can then be done using Dante Controller if required.
In Windows, multichannel WDM devices may present as groups of stereo pairs - for example, a WDM soundcard that presents 8 channels to Windows will typically appear in Dante Via as 4 stereo pairs.