AudioPort™ Universal
- Eliminate multiple costly audio cards and interfaces!
- Send up to 32 channels of 192 kHz 32 bit digital audio from PCs to a Mac for a fraction of the cost!
- AudioPort™ Universal is a software-based digital audio transport that uses an off-the-shelf Gigabit switch and standard Ethernet cabling.
- Even if you already have audio output cards, you can use AudioPort to free up precious card slots in your computers.
- AudioPort Host now works in Vista 64 and Windows 7 64 bit OS's with the addition of jBridge, an inexpensive utility.
- Works with many popular sequencers such as Ableton Live, Cubase, Digital Performer, Logic, and Nuendo.
AudioPort™ Universal is a stand-alone version of Audio Impressions’ proprietary system for enabling samplers or computers dedicated to digital audio plug-ins to send multichannel digital audio over gigabit Ethernet. AudioPort is cross-platform, so it doesn’t matter whether you’re sending audio from one or more Windows PC sample players to a Macintosh or Windows-based sequencer or DAW.
AudioPort is comprised of two parts, the Host and the plug-in. You install AudioPort host on one or more Windows PC computers, and you instantiate whatever VST based virtual instruments or effects plug-ins you wish inside that host. You then install one or more AudioPort plug-ins on your Macintosh or Windows sequencer or DAW. Digital audio flows from Host to plug-in via standard Gigabit Ethernet so no expensive cabling or audio I/O cards/converters are necessary.
Each host can send out up to 32 channels of digital audio at up to 192 kHz/32 bit depth, and you instantiate one AudioPort plug-in for each pair of channels being received in the sequencer or DAW. Works with The Nerds' ipMIDI or MusicLab's MIDIoverLAN CP for communication with synths and samplers instantiated in AudioPort Host. Also supports direct-connected MIDI keyboards and hardware devices that have Windows drivers or native Windows support.
Get more details with the AudioPort Universal FAQs, or the AudioPort Universal User Guide (a 10 MB pdf file).