Someone directed me to a thread about "Use Montage/Cubase to Record From Internet? " which is quite interesting.
I just wanted to mention my experience from NAMM at a Dante clinic. We were using a program called Via which is
not free but is inexpensive. Now you can use any garden variety Ethernet port for Dante, it is not special in any way.
I bought a USB3 - Ethernet dongle for $10 right before NAMM and used it. I am sure there are junk Ethernet dongles
out there so you should read reviews before you buy I think. So at one point in the clinic there were three of us there
sitting together, I played a MP3 file on my computer and using Via I patched the signal to the speakers on one of the
other guys laptops. The sound did not come out of my laptop any more, just the other guys laptop. Then he played a
MP3 file on his laptop and routed it to my laptop speakers. So I was playing his laptop and he was playing mine.
I think something like this could be done with the Yamaha Steinberg USB driver. Within Via the inputs and outputs of
the Steinberg USB driver should show up in the routing matrix for patching. What would be even more exciting
would be if Yamaha keyboards had Dante ports instead of USB. Between Via and the Virtual Sound Card software
you surely could route any audio any which way. My problem right now is that if I want to use my Steinberg UM22
audio interface to record microphones into Cubase I can't also have the MODX USB audio working.
The other answer to this is to sell my Steinberg audio interface and buy something like the Shure Dante 4 input box.
I joked with Greg Ondo at NAMM about why they put USB C on the new Steinberg interface instead of Dante?