Hello, I am new to Cubasis, hopefully can find some help. I have an external audio interface that has loopback capabilities. In Cubase there is an option t use that for routing, is there a way to use it in Cubasis ?
Thanks
What audio-interface are you using?
Some interfaces show the loop back channel as inputs 3&4 (or 5&6 etc. depending on how many input channels the interface has).
A few interfaces may require a separate app to set the loopback level.
On my Steinberg UR-242 loop back toggle is disabled on the iPad in the dspMixFX app while it works perfectly when connected to my Mac.
Both my Audient ID4mk2 and EVO4 show the loopback channel as 3&4 but unfortunately there’s no app to control the loopback mixer for the iPad.
Thank you so much for your fast reply, I am using a PreSonus Quantum ES4 audio interface - https://www.presonus.com/en/interfaces/usb-audio-interfaces/quantum-series/2777700504.html
I see the loopback interface when connected to a PC and using Cubase.
Any ideas would be great.
My guess is that your interface may require a specific driver for the loopback to work.
(Most likely the loopback driver is installed when installing the Presonus Universal Control on the PC).
That totally makes sense! the reason I say that is when I connect to the Universal controlvia the Ipad I dont see the usb (loopback) routing as I see on the pc. Thank you so.much for helping. I guess it is now for presonus to install a driver on the ipad to make it work.
Hi @sk180174
We suggest getting in touch with our friends at Presonus, to discuss the topic.
We’re at hand to provide them with promo codes of Cubasis for testing purposes, if required.
Best,
Lars
Hi,
That would be great, and would be helpfull, is that something you plan to do ?
Hi @sk180174
Thanks for your message!
We suggest you should get in touch with our friends at Presonus! We’re at hand to provide them with promo codes of Cubasis for testing purposes, if required.
Best,
Lars
Unfortunately I doubt Presonus will focus too much energy on creating specific an iPad Driver…
Technically Presonus could do it as Apples ‘DriverKit’ has been available since iPadOS16 was introduced quite some time ago.
However I’ve not yet seen any manufacturer creating custom Audio Device Drivers for their devices when used with iPadOS.
At most some provide a configuration app that communicates with a class-compliant audio interface (like the Steinberg dspMixFX apps for UR and UR-C series).
I have to admit I’ve not yet had the opportunity to test the UR-22C with the 3.0 Firmware Update but from the looks of it, it is capable of doing loop-back on the iPad once properly set up, just wish the pre-amps on it were not a noisy as they are. I think I’ll wait for an updated hardware revision before I bother to do that…
Cheers!
Thank you, I reached out to them. Long shot. Would you have any recommendations for workaround ?
Depends on the actual use-case, if it’s only to record audio from other apps running on the iPad (Youtube, Spotify etc.) then simply using the built-in screen-recording and extracting the audio (there’s a bunch of apps for this) would be enough.
Another ‘old-school hardware option’ would be to route the headphone output back to the inputs and disable input monitoring while recording to avoid feedback…
1 Like
Hi @sk180174
Following Samuel’s post: please share your use case with us, to see if there are other options to achieve it.
Best,
Lars
Thank you so much, I am new to all this, and great to see the community support.
The use case is indeed record audio from other apps YouTube Spotify running on the ipad.
Hi @sk180174
I suggest to do an exact Google search for both cases (make sure to include iPhone or iPad) to find solutions that work for you.
Best,
Lars
Thanks Samuel, can you kindly share example of the apps you mentioned for me to look at ?
What would I be searching for?
Thank you
Well, you could for example use WaveBox to record system-audio (it uses system screen recording but only saves the audio), trim the recording, save to a location on your device and import the file into Cubasis…
(This is not intended to be a lesson of doing something that is not ‘legal’ as sampling both YouTube and Spotify breaks the license agreement you’ve agreed to comply to). You’re on your own from this point forward 
The old-school quick & dirty method of using headphone output from the intercase and routing it into the audio-inputs works quite well too, or even recording the output from another device like a mobile phone connected to the audio-interface…