Hey it's Harry and today we're going to look at how to set up an EVO 4 audio interface
with an iOS device, whether you're looking to record some music
or create a mobile podcast, or even up your audio quality on live streaming apps
such as Facebook or Instagram Live.
Firstly it's worth mentioning that when
you register EVO 4, you get access to a bunch of free software and
plugins which includes Cubasis LE, which is an iOS recording platform
meaning you have everything you need to get your mobile production
up and running, straight out of the box.
If you have one of the newer iPad Pros which use USB C connectors
then you can go ahead and just plug a USB C-C cable straight from
that to EVO 4 and get going straight away.
If you have an older iPad or an
iPhone which uses a lightning connector, then these on their own won't be able to
power EVO 4, so you'll need a few extra bits.
Firstly you'll need a powered USB hub, and these can be powered
from a wall socket or you can attach an appropriate battery pack to them
and secondly you'll need a camera adapter kit which converts
USB A to Lightning to plug into your iOS device.
To connect it all together Firstly plug EVO 4 into one of the ports on the USB hub
then plug the USB cable of the USB hub into the camera adapter kit
and finally connect the camera adapter kit to your iOS device
you're also able to charge the iOS device while you're using it
to make sure you don't run out of battery while you're in the middle of something
by plugging a USB charging cable between the USB hub and
the Lightning port on the camera adapter kit.
At this point you can also plug in any compatible USB devices
such as keyboards or controllers into the USB hub and they should connect to your iOS device.
So now EVO 4 has power from the USB hub
and it's also connected to the iOS device through the hub and the camera adapter kit
and as soon as the iOS device detects it,
it will automatically switch across the inputs and outputs to use EVO 4
Some apps will give you more control than others when it comes to the audio settings
so for example if you want to use EVO 4 with something like Facebook or Instagram Live
you can't actually go in and edit the audio settings you just have to set
it up as shown here and start streaming
but if you're using audio recording
packages like Cubasis or GarageBand then you'll have a lot more control over
the different audio settings such as sample rate, buffer size, and the various
inputs that you're wanting to use at any one time.
So let's take a look how to get a session set up in a Cubasis
so first we open the app
and it'll automatically open up a demo project
so to create a new project we go to the top left icon here
and then we click 'new project' and then you can give it a name if you'd like
so here we have an empty project and just to make sure that EVO 4 is
connected as we expect we go into the settings
and then to audio
and then we can see that EVO 4 is connected in the hardware latency area
now we just want to create an audio track so we click 'Add' down the bottom here
and add audio
so now we've created a track and we just need to make sure that it's using the right input
so right now I have an SM7b here connected to input 1
so if we click the routing tab here
we can check that mono input number 1 is selected
and if we want to channel 2 we just click the number 1 there switch it
across to number 2 but we'll keep it to number 1 for now
so now we're ready to record but first we want to make sure that we can hear everything that's
happening in our headphones, you are able to monitor your inputs through Cubasis
here itself by pressing this little speaker icon
When that's lit up blue it means that you'll be able to hear your inputs in your headphones or speakers
but this can potentially introduce a latency or a delay so if you don't want
to do that you can still use the monitor mix button and all the monitoring
features on EVO 4 itself.
The last thing to check is that the
track is record enabled which is this button here so we just got to make sure
that that is set to red and now we're ready to record so we hit the record button
and we're away
This is a test of recording using EVO 4 on Cubasis on iPhone
and that's it we've now got audio recorded through EVO 4 onto our iOS device.
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