Bonjour,
Is there a way to use a smartphone as a monitoring output?
Ideally, I envision the option to select “smartphone” in the control room monitors and switch between speakers and the smartphone. Perhaps in a future version of Cubase?
Hi and welcome to the forum,
No, this is not possible. Cubase can use only one Audio Device (ASIO Driver) at time.
There are plugins that allow you to do that already, e.g. Remoter or HexCast, which can stream audio from your DAW to any web browser in your local network. Sonobus might also be an alternative, and it is Open Source (free, or Donationware).
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There’s another free option just released that looks very easy to use….just load the vst then scan it’s QR code with your phone
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That’s a nice find, and the QR code for ease of use is a clever idea. Do one thing, and do it right. And no need to register or activate a license, just download and use.
Indeed, sounds like a plugin that could come in quite handy. Has someone tried it, yet?
Just tried this one and it seems fantastic.
The plugin itself has a “mute DAW output” switch, so that is great. It can therefore be loaded as an insert in the Main section of the Control Room.
In the browser you have a mute on/off button, that they presented as a play/pause button.
Now we only need an expert network person to see if this plugin sniffs out any data.
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You mean if it secretly sends all your audio to the AI people to train their models with? 
As this plugin is developed by a single person from Heilbronn and the website is set up according to german law with an impressum and contact and everything DSVGO, I think it is unlikely (could still be a fake of course…).
But I checked it with TCPView in VSThost, and it just ones a TCP port on your system, which of course it simply needs for its functionality.
There are a lot of other apps that I would worry more about phoning home and sending stuff, starting with your OS and your browser…
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Better to have checked if it really is as harmless as it looks like on the outside.
I wonder if it would be possible for the dev to use https, in order to surpress the security warning of the web browser.
? I don’t quite understand what you mean by that.
I gather that a lot of, if not the most plugins nowadays “phone home”, if only to check for updates. Maybe more, who knows. As far as I could see, this doesn’t really do it.
I was also wondering, if the reason for this kind of plugin is to double check e.g. a mix on your smartphone, it would in theory be easier to just use an impulse response of a smartphone speaker, load that into Reverence and put it on a control room channel.
I did a quick search and was kinda surprised to see that there are not many IRs of smartphone speakers out there…
After scanning the QR code and trying to open the web page my browser issues a warning that I am about to open a page with an insecure connection.
I think this stems from using http instead of https.
Ah, now I understand. Yes, this is because the plugin uses simple http for transmitting the audio. Which is fine in my book, as it is only in your local network. It would be possible for the plugin to use https, but it would need to generate a self signed certificate to do so, and that would again trigger a warning in a browser. Creating a proper https connection is technically possible, but would require some set up from the user and can become complicated, and is simply not necessary in this case.
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Found an IR of an Samsung A52 (Freesound - IR - sweepsource - Samsung A52 smartphone - stereo 48k24b object_dc by peter1955). Is a bit balanced to the right side, but gives an approximation on you the music would sound on a mid range smart phone.
Thank you for the security info, much appreciated. That seems to be a really intriguing plugin.
On another note: I don’t want to spoil the party but…
An IR based emulation of speaker models (including attempts to copy NS 10s or Auratones) over main monitors can never fully replicate build-specific qualities. It’s just physics…
That’s why people still use cheap monitor speakers, Auratones, Airpods and whatnot for translation checks and don’t rely on SoundID’s emulations.