Sending Audio to Software Applications

Dante Via supports up to 16 channels of audio for software applications.

In macOS

In macOS, software destinations, such as recording applications, aren’t ever visible in the Dante Via UI.

To send sources to software applications in macOS, you must send them to the Stereo Application Input, or the 16 Channel Application Input, and then configure the application to use 'Dante Via Stereo' or 'Dante Via 16 Channel' as the recording / input interface.

With ‘Enable Dante’ selected, the application inputs present as receive and transmit channels (named ‘Stereo Application Input’ and '16 Ch Application Input') in Dante Controller.

Note:  The Stereo Application Input transmit channels visible in Dante Controller are used to provide the ‘all running applications mix’ (including system sounds) to the default output. The all running applications mix can be filtered by muting individual applications.

The receive channels will show a subscription present if a source is playing to one of the application inputs (but the source itself will not necessarily appear as transmit channels).

In Windows

In Windows, sources can be sent directly to software destinations, by dragging and dropping the source onto the destination. You can also use Dante Controller to directly subscribe a destination to a source.

See Software Application Visibility for information about application visibility in Dante Via.