Waves Audio and Hear Technologies have collaborated on the development of the WSG Bridge, bringing Waves to Dante.

Waves SoundGrid is an Audio-over-Ethernet technology developed by Waves to allow streaming of high counts of digital audio channels (up to 128), and processing that audio through plug-ins at ultra-low latency (as low as 0.8ms), all over a 1Gb network. Together with a SoundGrid Waves Server, a Mac or Windows host computer and a SoundGrid I/O, SoundGrid supports real-time use of a multitude of reverbs, equalisers, compressors, and other mixing tools by Waves, as well as any other SoundGrid-compatible third-party plug-ins.

To fill an ever-growing need to give Dante users access to Waves’ processing capabilities and use of Waves’ plug-ins, the WSG Bridge simultaneously transmits up to 64 channels of audio from Waves SoundGrid to Dante and 64 channels from Dante to Waves SoundGrid. ‘With 64 channels of bidirectional audio between the two protocols with sampling rates from 44.1kHz up to 96kHz, we’re providing yet another innovative tool to our innovative customers,’ says Hear Technologies Senior Design Engineer, Nason Tackett.

‘In line with our ongoing commitment towards enabling users with the utmost in creative freedom, Waves is happy to join forces with Hear Technologies in creating the WSG Bridge, enabling Dante users to benefit from using Waves plug-ins in real time,’ adds Mick Olesh, Waves EVP of Sales & Marketing.

The WSG Bridge is distributed by Waves Audio.