Some details for those here who like to know:
Dante was originally only an Audio over IP protocol, you can get PoE powered XLR to ethernet dongles and go over IP into your digital mixer which also has a Dante card and then manage the whole flow from your machine with a software called Dante controller on it. That routing is active within all machines until you change it even if the controller software is not running.
Nowadays they also have software called "Dante virtual soundcard" (which is just that) and "Dante Via" (which allows you to additionally route individual program's IO — e.g. if you want to put that computers powerpoint and Browser on different faders and send some microphone signal to the Zoom client).
All in all good stuff, but if you "just" want to route things within one machine, probably overkill.
In my experience this works perfectly fine using pipewire on linux, on MacOS Blackhole, on Windows I never needed it because my RME soundcard allows loopback recording and complex routing.
Nowadays they also have software called "Dante virtual soundcard" (which is just that) and "Dante Via" (which allows you to additionally route individual program's IO — e.g. if you want to put that computers powerpoint and Browser on different faders and send some microphone signal to the Zoom client).
All in all good stuff, but if you "just" want to route things within one machine, probably overkill.
In my experience this works perfectly fine using pipewire on linux, on MacOS Blackhole, on Windows I never needed it because my RME soundcard allows loopback recording and complex routing.