Soundcraft 5045044.V - Dante 64 x 64 Expansion Card with Worldclock for Local Rack and Compact Stagebox

The Soundcraft 5045044.V is a 64 x 64 Dante Expansion Card with worldclock, designed for use with Soundcraft's Local Rack and Compact Stagebox systems. This high-performance expansion card enables seamless digital audio connectivity between your Soundcraft system and Dante networks, providing 64 channels of audio input and output in each direction. This card is fully compatible with AES67, ensuring interoperability with a wide range of AES67-compliant devices and audio-over-IP systems. Additionally, the card supports 96kHz operation, making it suitable for high-resolution audio applications where pristine sound quality is essential.

With the 5045044.V Dante Expansion Card, you can integrate your Soundcraft Local Rack or Compact Stagebox into an existing Dante network or create a new network for efficient digital audio distribution. Dante is a widely used and industry-standard protocol for audio-over-IP transmission, offering low-latency, high-quality audio transport over standard Ethernet networks. This card allows audio engineers to route audio between different Dante-enabled devices, such as consoles, stageboxes, recording systems, amplifiers, and more, without the need for complex and expensive analog cabling.

The 5045044.V card provides a total of 64 input channels and 64 output channels, giving you plenty of flexibility for routing and distributing audio signals throughout your system. This high channel count is especially useful in live sound environments, recording studios, and broadcast settings, where multiple sources and destinations need to be managed simultaneously. The card also supports worldclock synchronization, ensuring that all connected devices remain in perfect sync, which is critical for maintaining audio integrity and preventing jitter or timing issues in large audio networks.

Designed for easy integration, the card features dual Dante connections via standard RJ45 ports, allowing for primary and secondary network configurations. This redundancy ensures reliable performance in mission-critical environments by providing a backup connection in case of network failure. This feature is especially important in live sound and broadcast applications, where uninterrupted audio transmission is vital. With the primary and secondary network options, the card offers fail-safe audio transport across your Dante network.

The Soundcraft 5045044.V Dante Expansion Card supports AES67, a key feature for modern audio-over-IP systems. AES67 is an interoperability standard that allows audio devices using different IP-based audio protocols, such as Dante, Ravenna, and others, to communicate with each other. This makes the card highly versatile and future-proof, as it ensures compatibility with a wide variety of audio devices and networks, both now and in the future. With AES67 support, the 5045044.V card can integrate seamlessly into hybrid audio-over-IP environments, providing greater flexibility and scalability for audio engineers and system integrators.

In addition to its compatibility with AES67, the 5045044.V card also supports 96kHz sample rates, which is ideal for high-resolution audio applications. Whether you're working in a live sound environment, a recording studio, or a broadcast facility, the ability to work with 96kHz audio ensures that your system can deliver the best possible sound quality. This is particularly important for critical listening environments, where audio fidelity is paramount. The card's ability to operate at 96kHz means you can handle high-definition audio content with ease, without sacrificing quality or performance.

The 5045044.V Dante Expansion Card is designed specifically for use with Soundcraft Local Racks and Compact Stageboxes, making it an essential accessory for expanding the I/O capabilities of your Soundcraft system. Whether you're adding remote I/O for a live sound setup or integrating multiple audio devices into a Dante network, this card provides a reliable and efficient solution. Its compact form factor allows for easy installation in both the Local Rack and Compact Stagebox, without taking up too much space, making it perfect for portable or permanent installations.

The addition of worldclock functionality on this card ensures that your entire audio system remains perfectly synchronized. Worldclock is critical in digital audio environments, where multiple devices must operate in sync to avoid timing discrepancies that can lead to clicks, pops, or audio dropouts. By providing a stable and accurate worldclock signal, the 5045044.V card helps ensure that all connected devices operate with precise timing, leading to a more stable and reliable audio network.

Overall, the Soundcraft 5045044.V Dante 64 x 64 Expansion Card is a powerful and versatile tool for expanding the audio networking capabilities of your Soundcraft Local Rack or Compact Stagebox. Its combination of 64 input and output channels, support for AES67 and 96kHz sample rates, and redundant network connections make it ideal for demanding live sound, broadcast, and studio applications. With this card, audio engineers can easily integrate their Soundcraft systems into Dante networks, providing flexible and reliable audio routing for even the most complex audio setups.

Features

• 64-input/64-output Dante Expansion Card for Soundcraft Local Rack and Compact Stagebox
• Compatible with AES67 for interoperability with a wide range of audio-over-IP systems
• Supports 96kHz sample rates for high-resolution audio applications
• Dual RJ45 Dante connections for primary and secondary network configurations
• Provides low-latency, high-quality audio transport over standard Ethernet networks
• Worldclock synchronization ensures precise timing across connected devices
• Perfect for live sound, broadcast, and recording environments
• Easy installation in Soundcraft Local Rack or Compact Stagebox
• Reliable audio transport with redundant Dante network connections
• Streamlines audio routing and distribution in complex audio systems

Specifications

• Compatibility: Local Rack, Compact Stagebox (AES67/96kHz version)