Learn how to separate KLANG control from Dante for 1st and 2nd generation KLANG products: VLANs on KLANG Processors | Overview

Learn how to configure the internal network switch of KLANG:vokal, KLANG:konductor and how to integrate KLANG:kontroller in a setup with separate Control and Dante networks/VLANs: Expert Network Settings & VLANs

Learn about how to configure the Dante Switch Configuration on KLANG:fabrik and KLANG:vier: VLANs /Dante switch configuration for KLANG:fabrik / KLANG:vier

Learn how to separate KLANG control from DiGiCo/Waves network here.

It’s an automatic IP address in the range 169.254.x.y/16, assigned when no DHCP server is available. Devices can still communicate with each other on the same subnet.

If your KLANG system can’t find a network with a DHCP server (the box that normally hands out IP addresses, e.g. a WiFi router), it will just give itself a number automatically so everything can still talk to each other. These self-assigned numbers always start with 169.254… and are called link-local addresses (sometimes also called “zeroconf”). It’s nothing to worry about — your devices will still connect and work together. For bigger setups, engineers might introduce a DHCP server or may switch to fixed IPs, but for a quick jam or smaller shows, link-local works fine out of the box.

You can’t see your KLANG device in Dante Controller?

You have probably configured your Dante module for a static / fixed IP address and now need to discover the unit’s IP address and revert it to factory defaults.

Please check out our detailed guide: How to recover and reset your Dante module’s fixed IP settings

See our step-by-step guide on Dante Firmware Update here to learn how to

• identify which Dante module your device uses,
• apply the appropriate update procedure.

Yes. Dante has the great advantage that it takes care of audio clocking almost automatically. If you use e.g. KLANG:vier with an ADAT input or KLANG:fabrik with ADAT, MADI or external Wordclock, or KLANG:vokal with MADI and you want to integrate the KLANG devices to a Dante network, the clock has to be configured manually.

Set the KLANG devices to the clock source of your choice. In Dante Controller, tweak the clock settings of this KLANG device in the “Clock Status” tab. Enable the “sync to external” and “preferred master/leader” for this unit. Now, the internal clock of the KLANG device will feed the entire Dante network and you can route audio from your KLANG processor e.g. to a :quelle or :kontroller.

Make sure the KLANG processors are not set back to Dante as the clock master before unchecking the “sync to external” setting again. Otherwise, you will end up with a clock loop.

Dante is a proprietary audio over IP (AoIP) network protocol developed by the company Audinate. It is extremely versatile, robust due to redundancy features and still easy to use. Instead of using analog multicores and several digital interface cables, Dante allows you to transmit hundreds of channels of audio with high fidelity sound (24 or 32 bit, 44.1–192kHz) across hundreds of meters with only one network cable, and maybe a second one for seamless redundancy.

Most manufacturers in the field of digital mixing consoles have already incorporated Dante into their products e.g. by supplying expansion cards. Among them are Yamaha, DiGiCo, Soundcraft, SSL, PreSonus, Midas through Klarkteknik converter, Behringer and many many more. Converters between digital formats or to analog inputs and outputs are available in various configurations. DAD/NTP, Focusrite, Auvitran are just a few examples for brands offering great connectivity possibilities.

Since 2015, Audinate’s Dante modules can be firmware updated to offer AES67 support enabling network audio connectivity to an ever wider range of products.