Audinate has announced v3.7.1 firmware for the Dante PCIe soundcard. New features include audio signal presence indicators, latency statistics monitoring and packet error detection.

The soundcard now supports up to 128 channels of bi-directional audio with incredibly low latency.  In addition, the it may now be used with several popular Thunderbolt expansion chassis, to enable connection to computers such as Apple’s Mac Pro, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini.

The Dante PCIe soundcard is certified to run with Apple’s latest version Mac OS 10.10, and will now also run on Microsoft Windows servers. Both Windows Server 2008 R2 and Window Server 2012 R2 are supported.

Thunderbolt expansion chassis support has been successfully validated against the following chassis: Sonnet Technologies’ family of Echo Express and rackmount expansion chassis; Magma ExpressBox 1T 1 Slot Thunderbolt to PCIe expansion chassis; and Other World Computing (OWC) Mercury Helios PCIe Thunderbolt expansion chassis.

The Dante PCIe soundcard has been enhanced to support the advanced Dante Controller feature set to monitor the status of the audio network. This allows the Dante Controller to remotely detect audio signal presence on computers running the Dante PCIe soundcard, which can also report latency statistics and packet errors to the Dante Controller.