Hello friends, I need some advice. I'm posting this in live sound because that's my primary domain/application, but I suppose this is actually a "recording gear" question. I'll try here anyway
TL;DR: what is the "best"/"easiest" way to multi-track record from a behringer/midas X/M32 console that has a dante card (and therefore can't have the plain USB or the X-Live card)?
1) connect an additional X/M32 console with X-Live via AES?
2) in software DAW using the dante virtual soundcard?
3) a dedicated purpose-built piece of hardware (a "multitrack dante recorder")?
4) other? I'm open!!
Longer/additional context:
I work with a group with a fairly sophisticated (at least to me) dante-based setup. the mixer is a 1u Midas M32C with a dante card. There are no analog connections at all. It's all ethernet. The mixer lives in a small portable rack with a PoE switch, some wireless receivers, and a midas monitor system. Keys and e-drums connect via XLR/Dante adapters powered over the ethernet. mics/guitars/bass are wireless to rackmount shure units with dante. FoH (when we provide) is yamaha tops and subs with dante ports. When we don't provide, we just drop a digital snake over AES (still just ethernet!). It's pretty slick (again, at least to me) and flexible.
One annoyance of the system (at least to me) is unlike every other behringer/midas system i've worked with, because this one has a dante card, it can't serve as an interface over USB, and can't record multitrack to SD card. So I need another solution. I can think of a couple, but none are perfect. I hope I'm missing something obvious, or somebody has solved this before and can advice.
First, just get another M32C, throw the X-Live card in, and slave it the first over AES. I think this is probably the way we'll go.
Second, record the dante streams into a DAW on a separate PC or Mac. I don't love this because it means fiddling with a PC/Mac and a DAW at show time.
Third, get some kind of dedicated dante stream recorder hardware unit. these are look absurdly expensive relative to the first option.
Any options I've missed? Any relevant experience/advice? Thanks very much!
TL;DR: what is the "best"/"easiest" way to multi-track record from a behringer/midas X/M32 console that has a dante card (and therefore can't have the plain USB or the X-Live card)?
1) connect an additional X/M32 console with X-Live via AES?
2) in software DAW using the dante virtual soundcard?
3) a dedicated purpose-built piece of hardware (a "multitrack dante recorder")?
4) other? I'm open!!
Longer/additional context:
I work with a group with a fairly sophisticated (at least to me) dante-based setup. the mixer is a 1u Midas M32C with a dante card. There are no analog connections at all. It's all ethernet. The mixer lives in a small portable rack with a PoE switch, some wireless receivers, and a midas monitor system. Keys and e-drums connect via XLR/Dante adapters powered over the ethernet. mics/guitars/bass are wireless to rackmount shure units with dante. FoH (when we provide) is yamaha tops and subs with dante ports. When we don't provide, we just drop a digital snake over AES (still just ethernet!). It's pretty slick (again, at least to me) and flexible.
One annoyance of the system (at least to me) is unlike every other behringer/midas system i've worked with, because this one has a dante card, it can't serve as an interface over USB, and can't record multitrack to SD card. So I need another solution. I can think of a couple, but none are perfect. I hope I'm missing something obvious, or somebody has solved this before and can advice.
First, just get another M32C, throw the X-Live card in, and slave it the first over AES. I think this is probably the way we'll go.
Second, record the dante streams into a DAW on a separate PC or Mac. I don't love this because it means fiddling with a PC/Mac and a DAW at show time.
Third, get some kind of dedicated dante stream recorder hardware unit. these are look absurdly expensive relative to the first option.
Any options I've missed? Any relevant experience/advice? Thanks very much!
