multitrack recording via LAN

VCV Rack
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I am using two computers, one for Rack, one running Cubase. I am looking for a way to stream 16 tracks of audio from the Rack system to the Cubase system for recording and mixing. Both systems are running windows10. I know I can just record the tracks in Rack, and bring them over to Cubase, but it would be great to have a direct connection, also because I use external synths, and want to keep everything in sync. I have looked at Steinbergs VST connect, and that looks promising, but I cannot find a way to get Rack’s audio into the VST Connect application. I tried virtual audio cable, but that’s max 8 tracks. Been looking at Max to route the audio from Rack to VST connect, but it’s quite a learn. Been looking at Jack, but that’s also not very intuïtive, to say the least.

So, who has got a solution/suggestion?

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You can try ReaStream from Cockos which is available for free. Works quite good for audio and MIDI for one-way communication.

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I’m guessing it would be easy (and expensive) if both computers had Dante cards in them?

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Try AsioLink Pro maybe is what you need.

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Yes, I guess so too :). I’ve been toying around with dante software, but that did not work out.

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Thanks. Looks good, but just 8 channels, if I’m not mistaken

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This won’t help you, as Host XL supports only 8 input/outputs. But you can use multiple instances in parallel…

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I’ll see what it can do. Thanks so far.

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Sorry to bump up an old thread, but did you ever get this working? I’m still looking for a way to run Rack on two computers and mix the audio over the network somehow. Curious if Reastream worked…

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in case you are on linux then the network mode of jack works quite ok - at least i used it a few times already to route audio and midi between two machines (one of them being a sonaremin) … of course you’ll get some latency and for that reason only ethernet makes sense, wifi would add too much latency i guess …

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I’ve given up, could not get it to work in a practical way.

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dante virtual sound card or VIA ought to be able to do this without hardware: https://www.audinate.com/products/software/dante-virtual-soundcard

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