yes...and no. you set a latency in dante controller for each dante device. this is the time the ethernet pakets should come in. That means, they are faster, but are not allowed to be slower. then, the device waits for the rest of the time to its setted time and forward it. So, every paket comes in at the exact same time that is set up. That means, even if the average latency displayed in dante controller is lower, the latency is what you set up. not quicker.MJKlein wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:56 am The overall latency on a Dante network is determined by the slowest device on the network. So, even if you are getting numbers like 250 us (as I am with my X-32 I/O Reaper) on individual devices, because I have a 2-channel Dante audio with a slower Ethernet connection, that limits the entire network to that device.
i think the x-dante card ship with preset 1msec or 0,5msec. every subscription has its own latency setting. so in one network with four devices ("A","B","C","D") you can connect "A" to "B" at 1msec and "C" to "D" with 0,250msec. so, from what i know. the overall latency is not set by the slowest device on the network, it is the slowest device that it has subscription to (really important i think), and the way the latency per device is set up.
for example... you have two mixing consoles with dante cards running 500usec latency and a DVS (Dante Virtual Soundcard). DVS per se is really slow compared to hardware devices. The fastest setting is 4ms. You can subscribe signals between the two mixing consoles at 500usec and between one console and your DVS with 4ms, even on the same network. They arent all dropped down to 4ms. (And for DVS. ASIO adds antoher latency to the 4ms)
and definitely not less latency than aes50. the minimum latency in dante controller u can set is 125usec. usually not all devices can do that and mostly it dont work ether. mostly, it is set to 500usec. AES50 in the other hand is about 170usec static. i've measured it. if you are hopping over more aes50 devices it scalles 1:1, so add 170usec for each device in cascade. if you route an aes50 stream in a channel and then to an aes 50 out, u can add 400usec channel processing to it. but thats the same if you do that over dante.
the allen&heath DSNAKE is about the same as AES50 from what i've measured.