SetUp
A personal monitor/mixer configuration using Venue mission in a DANTE environment.
Prerequisites
- A MacOS or Windows computer with a 1 Gb ethernet interface.
- MTDisovery tools installed on your computer.
The latest download link for Windows and MacOS :https://www.merging.com/support/downloads#accessory-installers-3 - The latest (at least 1.5.6 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 - A valid license key for the Venue mission.
You can ask for a temporary liense here: https://www.merging.com/trial/venue-mission - A Dante ready license.
Procedure
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.
The performer interface looks like:
Inputs setup
In the Settings>Inputs Create (1), Delete (2), Move order (3) and click in the list to configure input (4)
Note : scroll the inputs list by clicking and drag the screen.
Note : As many input may be created but only the first 16 enabled input are available in the performer personal monitor/mixer page.
Configure a specific input
Change the name, color, type, trim, delay...
Patch an input
Skip this step if you want to patch a AoIP stream
Scroll down to the Channels section. and click in the green area
Choose a input in the list by clicking Single
Note : click None if you want to unpatch an existing input
Patch an incoming Dante stream
Access an Anubis webpage by using MTDiscovery. Right click on the device and select "Open Advanced Page"
Click on the "I/O Router" tab (1) and make patches (2)
Note : you can rename In/Out in the Ins/Outs page next to the I/O Router
Make your network patches in Dante controller
Monitors setup
In the Settings>Monitors click on a Monitor to set it up.
Note : 4 monitors are available matching a physical output : XLR 1/2. Jack 3/4, Headphone 1, Headphone 2
Configure a specific monitor
Change the available parameters such as name ("James" in the exemple), color, and performer graphical interface behaviours.
Scroll down and set the Processing availability in the Personal Mixer performer interface.
Scroll down and set which inputs are available for the Monitor by clicking on "Show"
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
Open the web page of each Anubis to be cloned with the just saved preset file.
From the Menu (1), Browse the preset file (3), select it and open it.
Note : Repeat the operation for all the Anubis you need to clone.
Name separately each devices.
Open advanced page from the MT Discovery tools
For each devices, enter a Device Name (1), and set the IP addressing mode (2)
Note : 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.