Audio Interfaces

The Mackie Satellite is an audio interface with a unique two-piece design — but is it genius or gimmickry?

What does it take to make a Firewire audio interface stand out from the crowd these days? How about eight mic preamps, 26 channels of I/O at 24-bit/96kHz and some heavy-duty routing functionality...

Phonic's diminutive Firewire audio interface is extremely affordable and it can record at 24-bit/96kHz. Is it too good to be true?

Why carry two boxes with your mobile studio when one will do? Tascam's FireOne combines a MIDI and audio interface with a control surface, all in one convenient, paperback-sized unit.

Apogee's Symphony system aims to bring professional hardware to users who want to work with native digital audio workstations on a Mac, whether they're in the studio with a Mac Pro or on the road with a Macbook Pro.

RME pass down some of the excellent features of their Fireface 800 to the more affordable 400 model, but have they cut any corners in doing so?

The selection of USB 2.0 interfaces widens with the launch of these new models from Tascam.

Alesis know a thing or two about digital recording, but what can they bring to the busy world of audio interfaces? Quite a lot, as it happens...

Digidesign's LE range has received a comprehensive overhaul in the last year, and the new flagship 003 and 003 Rack incorporate many improvements over their predecessors.

If you have a compact setup, you might need a compact audio and MIDI interface. Is Echo's Audiofire 4 just the thing for the spatially challenged studio?

I've noticed that many audio interfaces have an ADAT option for getting more tracks into a DAW. I was wondering how would I go about setting this up and whether ADAT is better quality than Firewire or USB?

TC Electronic are well respected for their range of effects processors, so what might the company's first audio/MIDI interface, the Konnekt 24D, offer to make it stand out amongst the Firewire crowd?

Aimed primarily at guitarists who need audio interfacing and a keyboard, the KB37 seems to have a lot to offer for the price. We find out how it measures up.

We take an in-depth look at MOTU's most affordable Firewire audio interface yet.

A useful studio workhorse offering eight channels of mic pres plus ADAT I/O, that does just what it says on the tin.

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Native Instruments' new hardware offering has a few unusual features that may just find it a niche in the crowded audio interface market.

I have a Digidesign Digi 001 interface, which I have been using for some time. But I recently purchased a new PC with an...

Digidesign have shrunk the M Box to give us the most compact and affordable Pro Tools interface ever. How good is it?

Emu's first USB 2.0 interface, and their first to offer Mac OS X compatibility, dispenses with DSP effects and complex software front-ends, majoring instead on hands-on controls and practical studio features. Have they hit on a winning formula?

Synthesizer, USB audio interface, MIDI controller — Novation's Xiosynth does it all, and at a very reasonable price...