How to record 72 Channels of Digital Audio with your Midas Pro Series Mixer?

I always find it ironic that you can purchase a relatively inexpensive prosumer digital console and have built in multi-channel recording via USB or Firewire of most of the inputs and select outputs.
If you purchase a more expensive professional console, you often need to purchase digital I/O cards that usually cost over $1,000.

Take the Midas Pro series consoles.  They use AES50 I/O that works great with their DL stageboxes at 96Khz.  The challenge is that your desktop or laptop computer may only have USB 2/3 or Firewire 400/800.

What do you do?

The answer is a network bridge called the Klark Teknik DN9650. With this single rack unit device, you can accept three 24 bi-directional channels of 24 bit 96 Khz AES50 audio streams that can be converted to Dante, CobraNet, EtherSound or good old MADI.  You simply need to purchase the appropriate network module that you want to convert from and to AES50.  Then you need to have the appropriate protocol on the recording side of your computer.

The DN9650 supports both internal and external clocking!

Audio Processing - DSP - Network Bridges
Klark Teknik DN9650 - $899.00
CM1CobraNet - $599.00
CM1DANTE - $799.00
CM1ETHERSOUND - $1,999.00
CM1MADI - $129.99

We recommend the Dante card.  With Dante, by Audinate, you can install a virtual soundcard and make your computer's Ethernet port into an ASIO, WDM or Core Audio compliant recording interface!

You can even download a free trial of the software here:
http://www.audinate.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=238

You can download an informative PDF here:
http://www.audinate.com/images/PDF/Dante_Virtual_Soundcard_10-december-2014.pdf