Hi @sunrat,
after spending a couple of hours with AES67-linux-daemon and similar applications, which worked, i decided to go the safe way. I boroughed a Windows-laptop and got the 14-days trial-version for VSC (Dante virtual sound card). The guy who supported the audiosystem at the venue was familiar with dante, and we both are absolutely unexperienced with AES67, so i took the safe way. It was easy: starting VSC, connecting it physically to the console and everything was done. I just had to assign the 32 channels from VSC to ardour and recorded the whole evening (4 bands, i mixed three of them). No more configurationtasks. But it was a little hell getting the VCS: registering at the company, retrieving a serialnumber to unlock it...being confronted with all that licensingnoise (i almost felt like Frodo in Mordor must have felt), i think: in the end, for me, it's not worth to depend on an license that is in the end an act of good will (see the discussion around mixbus). Dante seems to be extremly convenient. But from a technical point of view, you don't have any clue, what's happening (PTP-stuff, multicaststuff...). AES67 needs way more configuration, but with that knowledge, you may be in the situation to recognise and solve a problem easier, i think. The only solution to solve a possible problem with dante ist obviously: switching all off and on again. I don't know what it is like in bigger setups, with PA-system fed directly by dante, having microfones that speak dante, using seperate FOH- and monitorplaces, maybe giving an n-1 to the radiostation...then i don't want to solve a problem that may occure. Dante relies heavily on a well managed network and i have enough to do with sole audio setup...
I had also got dantecontroller for safety reasons, but it wasn't needed. An interesting thing: in the preparation/learning phase, it found my AES67 source, but i didn't investigate further. Maybe in the next weeks (if Dantecontroller runs on WINE, because i have to return the laptop to my friend).
