Latin America. Audinate and Lawo signed a memorandum of understanding for the integration of Dante audio and video technologies into Lawo's HOME applications. This will include the provision of native discovery and management mechanisms for Dante devices and software, as well as access to Dante audio and video within Lawo's HOME management platform.
To achieve seamless interoperability, Lawo intends to integrate Dante APIs and SDKs for access to control, management, and multimedia signals for Dante networks directly into HOME. To this end, Lawo will also introduce new Dante Importer (southbound) and Dante Exporter (northbound) services inside and outside of HOME, which will be similar to the approach Lawo developed for interaction between native HOME and NMOS-compatible devices.
The Memorandum of Understanding underscores the importance of the Dante network protocol in the studio, installation and live sound sectors and will enable the powerful coexistence of the Dante and RAVENNA protocols at a microservices-based application level. Already available for audio hardware, using Dante cards installed on a DSP gateway and Lawo Power Core modular I/O, the planned integration will now be extended to HOME applications and will also include Dante AV video signals.
The most obvious benefit of this collaboration will be the ability to mix a diverse set of audio sources (Dante, SMPTE ST2110, NDI, SRT and RAVENNA) with Lawo's DSP HOME mc² application controlled from an audio streaming console or mc² crystal, or a mixer setup without a graphical interface.
The integration of Dante into HOME Apps is expected to provide seamless interoperability and agility for a wide range of Dante-enabled sources and destinations, such as power amplifiers, immersive audio speaker arrays, etc.
Audinate and Lawo hope to reveal the outcome of their landmark collaboration for software running on generic computing in early 2025.
