Dante Ready Quick Start guide

Dante Setup Guidelines

Thank you for choosing our Dante Ready interfaces.

What is Dante Ready?
A Dante Ready device allows you to purchase and add audio channels to a device after initial purchase using the Dante Activator feature in Dante Controller.

Dante Set Up Procedure
Detailed procedure on how to setup the Merging Anubis / Hapi MkIII or the Neumann MT 48 for Dante AoIP operation mode. 
 

Important:

• Merging Anubis / Hapi MKIII and Neumann MT 48 are delivered without a Dante license; a license plan must be purchased separately.

• Merging Anubis / Hapi MKIII and Neumann MT 48 are delivered ex-factory with the RAVENNA/AES67 firmware running.

• In order to operate in Dante mode it requires that the Merging Anubis / Hapi MKIII or Neumann MT 48 Dante firmware is updated in the unit.

Requirements:

• A Neumann MT 48, or Merging Hapi MkIII / Anubis (with latest hardware revision Dante Ready)
  (Anubis SPS Made in Hungary with serials 10000 and above).

• Applications installed

  • MT 48 Toolkit 1.7.0 or above

  • Anubis Toolkit 1.7.0 or above

  • MT Discovery 20.0.0 or above

  • MT Portal 1.2 or above

  • Dante Controller

• An Audinate account

• License purchasing plan is an additional cost

Procedure:

1. Device connected to network interface: Download and Install the MT Discovery and MT Portal applications.
   Device connected to USB Interface: Download and Install the MT Discovery and Neumann MT 48 Toolkit.
   Those can be downloaded from the Neumann website.

2. Connect the Hapi MkIII /Anubis / MT 48  to your computer gigabit network interface.
   MT 48 may also be connected to your computer USB interface.

3. Start the MT Discovery application.
   Your device should be detected, right click on it to launch “Show Available Updates”.
   
   Note: If the Dante firmware for your device has been already manually downloaded, you may directly “Open Maintenance Page” from MT Discovery and update your device.

4. In the MT Portal application, select your device and select the Dante tab.
   The MT Portal will display the Dante firmware, please click on Download & Update.
   
   Note: The firmware update will take more than 15min, please do not abort at any time.
    

5. Once the Dante Firmware has been updated, please reboot the unit.

6. Make sure you have downloaded and installed the Dante Controller application from the Audinate website. 
   The Dante Virtual Sound Card (ASIO/CoreAudio driver) is also recommended for operating your DAW in Dante mode (see additional information below)

7. With the Hapi MkIII/Anubis/MT 48 connected to the system running Dante Controller, launch the Dante Activator from the View menu.
   
   Alternatively, the Dante Activator will also notify that Devices are available for activation, in the Dante Controller icons.
   

8. The Hapi MkIII/Anubis/MT 48 should be detected into the Dante Activator
   

9. Select the device and choose a license plan:
   8 x 8 IO - . 16 x 16 IO - 32 x 32 IO and 64 x 64 IO are offered as of May 2026
   
   Note: License plans can be upgraded later and current paid amount will be deducted from the upgrade cost.

10. Go to Cart and Check out 
    You will be asked to Login on your Audinate account, create one if you don’t already have one.
    

11. Activate your license plan upon entering the purchase details (e.g. credit card)

12. Wait for the confirmation of the Activation.
    

13. The Hapi MkIII / Anubis / MT 48 is now ready for Dante operations.
    It will be discovered into the Dante Controller and can be used with other Dante devices or the Dante Virtual Sound Card. (Dante Virtual Sound card and/or Dante VIA must be purchased separately from Audinate)
    

Additional Information

• Dante Activator FAQ and Troubleshooting.

• Dante Virtual Sound card and/or Dante VIA must be purchased separately from Audinate

• The Dante Virtual Sound Card IO channel count support differs.
  Refer to Audinate DVS documentation for details.