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Probs not possible - but need to ask re BT Audio...

pax-eternapax-eterna
edited April 16 in General App Discussion

Thought I'd have a go at seeing if I can somehow use the BT audio function of my EV Evolve speakers.

Setting it (iPad) up with the EV Quicksmart app is pretty easy, however I cannot seem to get any audio from AUM to go to it. It just goes out the iPad speaker.

Anyone know if what I want to do is even possible? IE can AUM (even IF via the iOS audio system) send the audio out via BT?

I do have the Audiobus 3 app as well, if that helps??

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  • SvetlovskaSvetlovska
    edited April 16

    I send audio from AUM to my living room tv soundbar via Bluetooth all the time. If you go to Settings/Bluetooth on the iPad, you should find your speakers in the list of discoverable devices. You may have to initiate pairing on the speakers first if you have never used them to cast to from your iPad before. Once you can discover them, bop back to AUM and your sound should come out of the EV speakers. If it doesn’t, try turning Bluetooth off and on again in Settings, or re run the pairing. You shouldn’t need to do this via the app for the speakers, in fact using the app is probably why you aren’t hearing anything from AUM. (Example: my soundbar has an app for all sorts of fancy things, but I never use it. Just the ‘raw’ Bluetooth connection.)

  • pax-eternapax-eterna

    @Svetlovska said:
    I send audio from AUM to my living room tv soundbar via Bluetooth all the time. If you go to Settings/Bluetooth on the iPad, you should find your speakers in the list of discoverable devices. You may have to initiate pairing on the speakers first if you have never used them to cast to from your iPad before. Once you can discover them, bop back to AUM and your sound should come out of the EV speakers. If it doesn’t, try turning Bluetooth off and on again in Settings, or re run the pairing. You shouldn’t need to do this via the app for the speakers, in fact using the app is probably why you aren’t hearing anything from AUM. (Example: my soundbar has an app for all sorts of fancy things, but I never use it. Just the ‘raw’ Bluetooth connection.)

    ahhh, ok cool thx. Yes I was using the Quicksmart app - which of course doesn't work if the speaker is paired to iOS direct. Wanted to use the mixing function of the app mainly. But I may be able to find some sort of mixer app I can load into AUM.

    I also have an iRig Pro Duo and was thinking I might want to try connecting it to the iPad lightning port and see if I can get some hardware instruments audio in to the iPad as well and then all out to the EV Speakers. Any idea if that would work?

    I'll be experimenting in the interim though :)

    Thanks again

  • RedSkyLullabyRedSkyLullaby

    BT audio no good for music making in real-time due to latency right now by CME I think are working on sone kind wireless audio with low latency

  • pax-eternapax-eterna

    Latency is only an issue when trying to match up playing software instruments via MIDI and a separate audio stream. No dramas running just audio though.

  • wimwim

    @pax-eterna said:
    Latency is only an issue when trying to match up playing software instruments via MIDI and a separate audio stream. No dramas running just audio though.

    As long as you're not trying to play live. For that it's hopeless.

  • SvetlovskaSvetlovska
    edited April 16

    indeed. I mix and compose my stuff direct and live using my Bluetooth speakers as monitors. pace @RedSkyLullaby, I don’t find latency to be a problem. No drama. Irig into AUM also fine, you can record live into it. And AUM, amongst other things, is itself a mixer, lacking only per channel automation. I live mix my stuff direct into an output buss in AUM, linked as an IAA output direct into AudioShare, monitored via BT, for a very fast and spontaneous AUM workflow.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    If you're not playing a keyboard or whatever in time with another instrument, you can definitely go a long way with decent Bluetooth headphones / speakers. For just a bit of tweaking and sound design stuff, and when working with generative midi etc the latest generation Bluetooth headphones do the job just fine. Even things like soloing and muting drums can be got away with pretty well. As I am outside a lot these days, and work mostly with midi, Bluetooth noise canceling headphones have become the first thing I reach for most of the time. That Mantis video I just made was done using Bluetooth headphones. But they definitely won't be suitable for everyone in every circumstance.

  • zzrwoodzzrwood

    Yamaha have just released some wireless headphones for musicians, claiming latency of 4ms - or around the same as a cable…
    https://www.musicradar.com/news/namm-2023-yamaha-yh-wl500-ultra-high-speed-wireless-headphones-musicians

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