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.

Great preamps. Good price. Dsp is cool. Software is atrocious. Spent hours trying to get other DAWs to recognize multiple channels. Installation is hellishly complex and only allows for recording all 6 channels separately in proprietary software. eLicenser pops up a dozen error messages any time I try to open video editing software. Headache. Avoid if you have windows.

I love it, it’s so simple and easy to operate. Thanks

Noise Floor is Un beleavable considering it's range, a bit more flexibilities with hi impedance, options would have been, appreciated, but even so stereo sums aren't suffering given its matrix.

I watched an excellent video by Steinberg on YouTube before choosing this interface. Mainly because of the software that came with it. Unfortunately they failed to mention it would not work for Android which I think is plain wrong since more and more like products work for both iPhone and Android. So I ordered it thinking I had a great solution for my needs only to be extremely frustrated after spending several days researching products.

I was coming from an 18i8 that I continued to have issues with sound cutting out to this and have not had a single issue yet. Easy to setup with both my computer as sound card and in DAW.