Dante Ready Quick Start guide.

Dante Setup Guidelines

Thank you for choosing our Dante Ready interfaces.

What is Dante Ready?
A Dante Ready device allows you to purchase and add audio channels to a device after initial purchase using the Dante Activator feature in Dante Controller.

Dante Set Up Procedure
Detailed procedure on how to setup the Merging Anubis or Merging Hapi MkIII for Dante AoIP operation mode.

Important:

• Merging Anubis & Hapi MKIII are delivered without a Dante license; a license plan must be purchased separately.

• Merging Anubis & Hapi MKIII are delivered ex-factory with the RAVENNA/AES67 firmware running.

• In order to operate in Dante mode it requires that the Merging Anubis / Hapi MKIII Dante firmware is updated in the unit.

Requirements:

• A Hapi MkIII / Anubis (with latest hardware revision Dante Ready*
  (Anubis SPS Made in Hungary with serials 10000 and above). Refer to the Dante FAQ for all details.

• Applications installed

  • Anubis Toolkit 1.7.0 and above

  • MT Discovery 20.0.0 and above

  • MT Portal 1.2 and above

  • Dante Controller

• An Audinate account

• License purchasing plan is an additional cost

Procedure:

1. Download and Install the Merging MT Discovery and MT Portal applications.
   Those can be downloaded from the Merging website or Neumann website.

2. Connect the Hapi MkIII /Anubis to your computer gigabit network interface.

3. Start the MT Discovery application.
   Your device should be detected, right click on it to launch “Show Available Updates”.

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   Note: If the Dante firmware for your device has been already manually downloaded, you may directly “Open Maintenance Page” from MT Discovery and update your device.
   
   

4. In the MT Portal application, select your device and select the Dante tab.
   The MT Portal will display the Dante firmware, please click on Download & Update.

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   Note: The firmware update will take more than 15min, please do not abort at any time.
   
   

5. Once the Dante Firmware has been updated, please reboot the unit.

6. Make sure you have downloaded and installed the Dante Controller application from the Audinate website.
   The Dante Virtual Sound Card (ASIO/CoreAudio driver) is also recommended for operating your DAW in Dante mode (see additional information below)

7. With the Hapi MkIII/Anubis connected to the system running Dante Controller launch the Dante Activator from the View menu.

   Alternatively, the Dante Activator will also notify that Devices are available for activation, in the Dante Controller icons.

8. The Hapi MkIII/Anubis should be detected into the Dante Activator

9. Select the Hapi or Anubis device and choose a license plan.
   Anubis: 8 x 8 IO or 64 x 64 IO are available

   Hapi MkIII: 16 x 16 IO or 64 x 64 IO are available

   Note: License plans can be upgraded later and current paid amount will be deducted from the upgrade cost.
   
   

10. Go to Cart and Check out
    You will be asked to Login on your Audinate account, create one if you don’t already have one.

11. Activate your license plan upon entering the purchase details (e.g. credit card)

12. Wait for the confirmation of the Activation.

13. The Hapi MkIII/Anubis is now ready for Dante operations.
    It will be discovered into the Dante Controller and can be used with other Dante devices or the Dante Virtual Sound Card. (Dante Virtual Sound card and/or Dante VIA must be purchased separately from Audinate)

Additional Information

• Dante Activator FAQ and Troubleshooting.

• Dante Virtual Sound card and/or Dante VIA must be purchased separately from Audinate

• The Dante Virtual Sound Card IO channel count support differs.
  Refer to Audinate DVS documentation for details.