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In one of my instalations, I'm using Stereotool to process FM audio in a station with an AOIP network. In this particular case I'm using Dante. I have a Dante Virtual Sound Card installed in my ST machine but I'm not using that because I will have SRC issues (except in mme mode but then you will have Windows make a poor SRC intead. Btw, in MME mode on input i'm getting too much noise at ouptut).
Result, to get ST onair I'm using the analog input from the Marian Trace Alpha soundcard with 192khz clock and I'm literally throwing away a pristine audio like I have in a Dante network
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I am currently using DANTE AoIP with ASIO with Stereo Tool and then have it output it to a non ASIO driver, being the soundcard MPX output to the TX chain. The audio card is running WDM at 192k and have the DANTE ASIO driver at 48k. Have used both the Virtual Soundcard and DANTE VIA but found Virtual Sound Card more stable and capable of surviving Windows 10 updates better.
While I'd love to run the sound card driver in ASIO mode to dramatically improve the latency aspect, I opted to not worry too much given that on the horizon most MPX UHF links will be phased out (2-3 years) in our region and that I would rather see the microMPX facility Hans and the team built integrated into Stereo Tool as a alternative (license-able) option. Via IP, latency is trade off, but to maintain audio quality, it is definitely worth it.
Fingers crossed this might happen soon as I am aware of numerous stations running both software and hardware encoders/decoders (eg Barix) that would see benefit (and enhanced audio quality!) but moving to something that runs MPX across an IP network in a encoded format built for it.
As well as microMPX to carry MPX via IP, I would love to see an option to encode the audio into a DAB/DAB+ stream and route it via IP to it's destination as well!
Regards
Rossco