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A personal monitor/mixer configuration using Venue mission in a DANTEDante environment.
Prerequisites
- A MacOS or Windows computer with a 1 Gb Gbps ethernet interface.
- MTDisovery tools 15.0.10 and above installed on your computer.
- The latest MTDiscovery download link for Windows and MacOS
- An Anubis with a Dante firmware installed
- The latest (at least 1.
- 7.
- 0 or greater) Anubis toolkit available
- here https://www.merging.com/support/downloads#current-anubis-downloads
The toolkit includes the Anubis Dante firmware and the remote control app for Windows and MacOS
- Dante controller installed on your computer
- The latest Dante controller installer download page https://my.audinate.com/support/downloads/download-latest-dante-software
- A valid license key for the Venue mission.
You can ask for a temporary liense license here: https://www.merging.com/trial/venue-mission - A Dante ready license.
Procedure
Preamble
While some configuration may be done on the Anubis device, the following operation can be achieve from a computer. To access to a specific Anubis you need to launch a Remote Controller from MTDiscovery.
Operating Modes
Go to the settings by long press the Home (Pyramid) physical button and click on "SETTINGS"
Note: if the Venue icon is not selected, press it to switch Anubis into Venue mission. If the lock icon is present next to the Venue icon, you need a valid license (see prerequisites section)
2 choices of operating mode are available:
Personnal Monitor
Select it when a performer need a basic volume/pan/balance control of a mix. A typical use is symphonic orchestra.
The performer interface looks like:
Personnal Mix
Select it when a performer need solo mute and some advanced audio processing access such as parametric EQ, Dynamics or Reverb.
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Change the name, color, type, trim, delay...
Patch
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an input
Note : patches can be done later see patch section below
Scroll down to the Channels section. and click in the green area
Choose a physical input in the list by clicking Single
Note : click None if you want to unpatch an existing input
Patch an incoming AoIP stream
We need to create a network receiver.
Access an Anubis webpage by using MTDiscovery. Right click on the device and select "Open Advanced Page"
Click on the "Session sinks" tab (1) and create an AoIP receiver (2)
Click on Source drop box and chose an available Source in the drop down list
Note: if the Source is not yet present in the list, you can manually name it and once the Source becomes availble and discovered in the network, the connection will become effective. Ensure that the channels count is correctly set (default is 8)
Other available settings don't need to be changed in a usual setup. Please consult the following page for more information : Merging RAVENNA Advanced Pages User Guide..
Scroll down to the patch matrix where the input previously created are listed
Note: While physical output (XLR 1/2. Jack 3/4, Headphone 1, Headphone 2) may be patched, it is not recommended since it will bypass the Venue mix engine.
By repeating the operation, you can create up to 64 receivers following your needs.
Monitors setup
In the Settings>Monitors click on a Monitor to set it up.
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Scroll down and set which inputs are available for the Monitor by clicking on "Show"
Patch monitor input to a physical I/O or a stream
Access an Anubis webpage by using MTDiscovery. Right click on the device and select "Open Advanced Page"
Note : MAD or VAD may be used instead
Click on the "I/O Router" tab (1) and make patches (2)
A typical patch should look likes:
- Physical inputs (Combo 1/2 Jack 3/4) routed to Dante and to the personal mix inputs
- Builtin-Mic to Dante for talkback purpose
- Dante streams such as stems and talkback to the Personal mix inputs
- Personal mix monitors to Physical outputs (XLR 1/2, Jack 3/4 Headphone1, Headphone 2) and to Dante streams for mix loopbacks
Note :
Detailed information on this web app may be found here
Configuration deployment
Clone
In MTDiscovery, right clîck on the configured Anubis and click on "Open Web App"
The following web page should be displayed. From the Menu (1), Download the preset file (2). Save it to your computer
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For each devices, enter a Device Name (1), and set the IP addressing mode (2)
Note Notes :
- The device name have to be unique in a network.
Go to System (1) tab and Reboot (2) the devices to apply IP and Naming
Now let's create the AoIP transmitters which have to done for all the Anubis separately.
For each Anubis to be configure, launch the advanced web page by using MT Discovery. Click on Session source (1) tab and click on (2) to create a new transmitter (Session source).
Once created, name it.
Note: if receivers created above match the name of the transmitter, the audio stream becomes effective.
Transmitter name should be carefully chosen specially when many streams have to be setup. A good practice is to prefix the stream with the Anubis role. This ensure a proper way listing all the available Transmitter when sorted in an alphabetic order.
Choose which codec you want to use.
Note: L24 is the default and recommended codec. L32 may be not be compatible with some receiver.
Scroll down and choose the channel count of the stream (1), and apply (2).
Note: channel count on transmitter and receiver side have to match otherwise the receiver will tell you that channels count to not match
Patch the stream to an available inputs. Inputs may be a physical audio input or a monitor mix.
Here is a second transmitter name "V1 Heaphone loopback" created and patched to Heaphone 1 mix.
Note: This is handy when the sound enginneer, want to check the performer mix.
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- The device name can be changed from Dante controller
Dante network routing
Make your network patches in Dante controller
