What is Dante Via?

Dante Via is a software application that allows you to quickly and easily connect high-quality audio between audio-capable hardware devices and software applications, both locally and across a Dante network.

Dante Via:

• Provides Dante audio connectivity between all audio-capable devices and software applications on your computer. This means you can easily route audio internally around your computer without having to individually configure each device or application, and you can independently route audio to and from audio-capable software that doesn’t natively support audio routing. For example, using Dante Via you can route iTunes to multiple external soundcards simultaneously.
• Exposes to the Dante network all available hardware and software audio sources available on your computer. This means you can share your audio with other users and devices on the Dante network. You can easily specify exactly which devices and applications are exposed to the network, and which aren’t.
• Displays all shared audio sources on or connected to other Dante Via-installed computers on the network. This means you can route audio from other computers and devices to wherever you want on your own computer, or to audio devices connected to your computer.
• Displays remote (not computer-connected) Dante-enabled audio devices on the network, such as Dante-enabled mixing consoles. Using Dante Via you can route audio from remote Dante devices to your own destinations. In combination with Dante Controller, you can also ‘push’ audio to remote devices.
• Enables computer-only Dante networks (does not require a Dante hardware clock).

Dante Via automatically scans the computer for running audio-capable software applications, and connected audio-capable hardware devices, and displays them as audio sources and/or destinations in the user interface.

Note:  On Windows, software applications must be actively playing or recording to be initially discovered by Dante Via (more information).

Note:  On macOS, software destinations are not displayed (more information). Software sources must be actively playing to be initially discovered by Dante Via.