Connecting Cymasphere iOS to MacOS

How to connect Cymasphere on iOS (iPhone or iPad) to your DAW on MacOS (laptop or desktop computer)

Getting Connected: #

Watch the video here.

Steps:

1. Physically connect iOS device to laptop or desktop computer (with USB-C, Thunderbolt, or Lightning cable)
2. Make sure iOS device is unlocked – When prompted to trust computer, select ‘Trust’
   
   
   

3. Open ‘Audio/MIDI Setup’ located under Applications > Utilities folder. (Drag this application to your dock for easy future access)
   
4. In Audio/MIDI Setup, scroll down to your iOS device, and select ‘Enable’
   
5. Open Cymasphere on your iOS device
6. Login to you Cymasphere account
7. In the sidebar, open the Audio Sampler menu
   
8. Disable the built-in sampler (we want to hear audio from the DAW, not the sampler)
   
9. In the sidebar, open the MIDI I/O Device menu
   
10. Under Output devices, select ‘IDAM MIDI Host’
    
11. Open your DAW, and create a virtual instrument track (also called software instrument)
    
12. ‘Record Enable’ your instrument track (also known as ‘arming’ a track)
    
13. In Cymasphere, start pressing the cymatic buttons. You should hear audio and see signal metering in your DAW.
    
    
14. Great! You should be connected! To sync Cymasphere’s sequencer with your DAW, read this article.

Still not hearing audio?
• In your DAW, ensure that ‘IDAM MIDI Host’ is enabled as a MIDI input device.
• On your instrument track, make sure the MIDI input device is also set to ‘IDAM MIDI Host’
• In Cymasphere, open the Voice / Channel Matrix from the sidebar, and confirm that each voice is being sent out of at least 1 MIDI channel. (By default, each voice sends out MIDI channel 1)

• We recommend using MIDI Monitor (free MacOS app by snoize) to help troubleshoot MIDI signal flow on MacOS.
• We recommend using MIDI Scope (free iOS app by Kinematic Systems) to help troubleshoot MIDI signal flow on iOS.