Connecting Cymasphere Android to DAW on Windows

⚠️ This configuration requires installation of MIDI Hub Android app from Google Play (~$10 paid app)

Getting Connected: #

Watch the video here (coming soon)

Steps: #

1. Connect your Android device to your Windows device (USB cable)
2. Allow the Android to share data from the WIndows computer
   
3. To enable your Android device to send MIDI over USB, we need to enable Developer Mode on the Android Device.
4. Navigate to Settings > About Tablet (or About Phone) > Software Information
   
5. Tap the box that says Build number 7 times (seriously, this is a real thing)
   
6. Enter your device password to enable Developer Mode
7. Below ‘About tablet’, open ‘Developer options’, and scroll down to ‘Default USB configuration’
   
8. Select ‘MIDI’
   
9. Open Google Play on Android and install ‘MIDI Hub’
10. Open ‘MIDI Hub’
11. Under ‘Input Ports’, select the + box, then ‘Select Device’
12. Under ‘Virtual Ports’, select ‘MIDI Hub Virtual Port 1’
    
13. Under ‘Output Ports’, select the + box, then ‘Select Device’
14. Under USB, you should now be able to see your ‘Android USB Port’
    
15. Drag the input port box to the output port box to establish a connection
    
16. Each box should have a green light in the top right to indicate an active connection
17. Open your DAW (this example uses Pro Tools)
18. Create a new instrument track, and add a software instrument
    
    
19. Record enable your instrument track
    
    
20. Open Cymasphere
21. In the sidebar, open the ‘MIDI I/O Devices’ menu
    
22. Under Output devices, select ‘Virtual Port 1 Out’
    
23. Press the cymatic buttons to generate chord voicings. You should see signal on your instrument track and hear the chord voicings being played.
    
    
24. Great! You should be connected. To sync Cymasphere with your DAW, read this article.
    

Still not seeing signal in your DAW?
• Ensure that your Android device is enabled as a MIDI input device in your DAW (may be called ‘MIDI Function’)
• Ensure that your instrument track’s MIDI input is set to Android MIDI port
• In Cymasphere, open the Voice / Channel Matrix in 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 View (free Windows app by HauteTechnique) to help troubleshoot MIDI signal flow on Windows.
• We recommend using MIDI Scope (free Android app by Mobileer Inc) to help troubleshoot MIDI signal flow on Android.