Dante Controller

Dante Controller is a free software application created by Audinate that allows users to easily configure and manage their Dante audio and video networks. It provides a simple, intuitive way to route signals, change device settings and monitor the status of all Dante-enabled devices on the network.

Features

1. Routing: Dante Controller allows users to view all Dante-enabled devices on the network and create or remove audio and video connections between them. The configurations are saved directly to the devices, so the routing survives power cycles and device disconnection.

The Dante Controller allows you to easily configure and manage audio networking across multiple devices.

2. Device Settings: Dante Controller provides an easy way to configure and manage device settings for Dante-enabled devices. It provides a user-friendly interface for setting up device parameters such as sample rate, latency, clock settings and device names.

3. Presets: Dante Controller provides an easy way to back up, restore, move and reuse Dante network configurations using presets, and routing configurations can be edited offline. Presets can also be prepared with the free online Dante Preset Creator and applied later.

4. Monitoring: Dante Controller works as a dashboard for the health of the network. It shows multicast bandwidth across the network and, for each device, transmit and receive bandwidth, latency statistics, clock stability statistics and packet errors.

5. Diagnostics: Dante Controller provides an easy way to troubleshoot Dante-enabled devices. It keeps customized event logs, displays the clock leaders and identifies issues with sample rates or network connectivity, allowing users to quickly identify and resolve problems.

6. Filtering: Dante Controller can filter devices by name, sample rate, latency and other parameters, which makes large networks easier to navigate and manage.

7. Device Lock: Dante Controller provides an easy way to protect media connections from unintended disruptions by locking device configurations, so that settings and connections cannot be changed by accident, for example by another user of a shared network during a live event.

8. Custom Naming: Dante Controller allows users to give custom, friendly names to devices and media channels, so the network is easier to navigate, monitor and manage.

9. Updates: Dante Controller provides an easy way to keep Dante-enabled devices up to date. It connects to a library of firmware updates from manufacturers of Dante-enabled products and pushes them to the devices, adding new features and bug fixes.

10. Platforms: Dante Controller is a free download for Windows and macOS. Current Windows releases support 64-bit Windows 10 and 11, and the program needs a wired Ethernet or Wi-Fi network interface to reach the devices on the network.