The Audinate Dante-MY16-AUD2 is a specialized I/O expansion card designed to add high-channel-count Dante digital audio networking capabilities to select Yamaha digital mixing consoles. It installs into a dedicated card slot on compatible Yamaha mixers (such as the CL, QL, and TF Series), instantly enabling 16 channels of bi-directional, low-latency digital audio I/O over a standard Ethernet network. This transforms the mixer into a powerful node on a Dante network, allowing it to send and receive audio to/from a wide variety of other Dante-enabled devices, including stage boxes, recording interfaces, amplifiers, and other consoles, using a single CAT cable for potentially hundreds of channels. This vastly expands the system's flexibility, scalability, and simplifies wiring compared to traditional analog multicores or proprietary digital snakes.

The card is built to professional standards for reliability in live and installed sound applications. It utilizes the robust, industry-standard Dante protocol from Audinate, ensuring high-quality, sample-accurate audio transmission with automatic clock synchronization. Once installed, the mixer's software integrates control of the Dante channels seamlessly, allowing the engineer to route them as inputs and outputs just like any other physical port on the console. The MY16-AUD2 is a critical component for system integrators and engineers looking to build modern, networked audio systems centered around a Yamaha console, enabling easy integration with third-party equipment and facilitating complex system designs with distributed audio throughout a venue.