Steinberg UR44C 6x4 USB 3.0 Audio Interface with Cubase AI and Cubasis LE

My main reason for choosing this was the fact that I run Nuendo/Cubase 13 on my system. But, this is not the only reason that I find this a great piece of equipment. The ease of routing and real-time fx in the dspMixFx app sold me the most. Very helpful, and flexible as well! The preamps are robust and quiet in terms of noise. The 6 inputs give enough for a small home studio to do the job, too. For me, the software was easy enough, but, again, I am already deeply in the Steinberg ecosystem for several Cubase versions and recently Nuendo... Due to this, I already knew the hoops that needed to be jumped through! All in all: Good stuff!!!

Up Grading my Home Studio from a Steinberg UR242 with USB 2.0 to the NEW Steinberg UR66C was a good upgrade. In the past the older interface had some latency that was easily controlled by adjusting the buffer size. For me this Buffer had to be changed depending on if I was recording or just mixing which was easy enough to do but one more step that I didn’t need to waste time on.The UR66C with its USB 3.0 connected through my USB 3.1 and “Super Speed” driver selected, this interface needed no buffer adjustments at all. Sound quality is Awesome as it is with all Steinberg products. Solid Build, Great Feel to the Knobs.Now for what I do not like…As with all products there will be something that you don’t like. This product is no different. In Steinberg’s Re-Design they took away the On-Off (power button) that use to be located on the back corner by the power plug. Without this On-Off button this interface is Always On. This may be fine for those of you that have a Full Time Studio but for my home studio this causes problem.For Music Production I boot to a Stripped Down Win 10 Boot Drive that has nothing but CuBase 10 PRO on it and in that situation “Always On” is OK. BUT this computer is also used as a Home Theater PC and needs to use the 6.1 Surround Sound Card and NOT the USB Interface... In that situation without an On-Off button you have to unplug the unit which is very inconvenient or leave it on which I don’t like to do.All in all, I love this interface but it really needs an On-Off button… Because of this I will have to connect the power supply to a switched outlet.SYSTEM:Gigibyte GA-Z170mx-gaming 5i7- 7700K processor32Gb DDR42-Samsung EVO 250Gb SSDEVGA GeForce 1070 8Gb

32-bit & 192kHz across all 6 inputs for a reasonable price. This helps record every ultrasonic nuance of microphones and instruments with higher fidelity.Before Steinberg, I was using a combo of virtual audio cable software and separate USB MIDI inputs, but they do not work very well in music production. Multiple USB audio interfaces nowadays for instruments like the TR-8S just don't mesh together well for recording internally in a PC.This is all why I decided to go for MIDI (USB & DIN) & Line Audio when producing music. Easy with the Steinberg UR44C.A lot of people here mention the software:The Yamaha/Steinberg ASIO drivers on the Steinberg website are an easy install in Windows 11, and work flawlessly in any major DAW. I use a few like FL Studio and Ableton Live 12. Great!HOWEVER, the other Steinberg-included software like dspMixFx have e-Licenser requirements that I refuse to clutter my music PC with. Those softwares are useless with a basic DAW with basic plugins, anyway.During install there is an option to select only the Yamaha / Steinberg driver.

I tried.... I've had this interface in regular use for two years now. I wouldn't recommend it on my worst enemy.The software dspmxfx doesn't work, half the time the settings won't be applied. Half the time the audio interface won't respond to X or Y. There is no way to power the thing off without physically unplugging it.Do yourself a favor. don't get it.

I would avoid this interface at all costs, im sorry Steinberg , but i have been incredibly disappointment with the build quality of this unit. The USBC port is obviously faulty, it started suddenly disconnecting, even tho i would get no software errors, even tho im on the latest of all the drivers (yes even my AMD USB 3.1 extensible host controller)On top of that, it happened out of no where, no update to my system, im on win 11 pro. The usb port is as loose as a goose and the support will NOT help you, they will tell you to go to amazon and are otherwise completly unhelpful which is insane for this price point imo. There is no reason for that for a <2month usnit that just sits on my desk. Its unbelievable.I will most likely be going back with my berhinger UMC404HD while i look for a new interface... ( of which i have had ZERO issues, and i've had it almost a decade now. )I'm the unluckiest person in the world when it comes to getting new tech, and so your mileage will vary, but i have to say i was incredibly disappointment with this unit.Im only giving it 2 stars because of the absolutely fantastic support i got from amazon, you guys are the bomb. Stienberg could learn a thing or two.My advice, if you are on ryzen 7series and windows, avoid this product imo. And if youre using it and get a random disconnect the first week and you meet that criteria, do NOT disregard it, it WILL get worse.No amount of device swapping/restarting/resetting/reinstalling drivers for host controllers and ASIO will fix it. It will only continue getting worse. Immediately exchange if your unit starts doing this!!! Don't be me.To this moment im still not sure if its a driver thing or a usb thing, but one things forsure the port is awful. and their support is even worse.be careful. And you know what i even hate to say this because when its working its actually quite nice, but this past week has been hell. Buyer beware. Never ever in my years of pro audio did i ever think i'd say i'm going BACK to berhinger but here we are!I'll prolly go for a more expensive unit from a different vendor. But best of luck to anyone that does decide to go with this unit, IMO not worth it