SteinbergUR22C 2x2 USB 3.0 Audio Interface with Cubase AI and Cubasis LE

I lovvvvvve this interface! Here’s what cool about it. It’s built like a tank. It has USB-C 3.0 for connecting to your computer (I did buy a better 3.2 cable). The software is amazing! Low latency, and everything you can imagine to compose and record with, including amp and pedal settings, vocals, keyboards, drums. It’s all available. I did contact Support who stayed on the phone and stepped me through which software to load. Our band wanted to practice remotely. I was in Arizona, 1750 miles from Chicago. Using a 2.0 USB had too much latency. We also switched from Jamkazam to Sonobus. The Steinberg loved Sonobus and the latency dropped so low we could also run video at the same time. We only tested 3 connections all using the Steinberg. Perfect. Note that if one person uses a slower interface, it injects latency, so everyone needs the same unit. Here’s the second great thing. The sounds in the Steinberg software are so good, I take a laptop, and the interface and connect it to a channel on the mixing board directly and I don’t need an amp when using in ear monitors. It’ll also do stereo output. I don’t lug an amp to rehearsal anymore. Best buy I’ve made on gear in a long time. Highly recommended!

I use this to control my Sennheiser headphone/mic combo for online meetings. Game changer for sure! Easy to set up with the UR-C Windows app. A lot of options for configuration depending on headphone and mic capabilities. This is a quality device and I highly recommend it.

I'm not the biggest fan of the ergonomics of it.1. The only way to turn it off is to switch it from USB-C power to MicroUSB, using a tiny switch on the back. I'm fine reaching across the desk to accomplish this, but sometimes you just want a power switch right at the front.2. The only way to switch +48v is a tiny switch on the back of it. Look, I know this sounds like I'm repeating myself, but damn I wish it were a button or switch on the front panel.BUTHere's why neither of those things matter: I am using a rather tough to power condenser, and I had to turn the gain up quite a bit, but you know what? I don't hear noise. In fact, I don't hear the system noise until I am very close to 95% of maximum gain, well past where I get a good signal going for -12 to -6The thing must have all of it's power supply and wires in the back of the unit, because this thing is quiet!I cranked my D-75A to max, cranked the UR-22C monitor knob to max, and I have to place my head right about six inches from the speaker to hear the faintest hiss. Meanwhile, that would pop my ear wide open if I played something at those levels. At unity, it's silent!Playback is clear, but my monitors are not isolated from the table and one is next to a corner and yadda yadda I really can't comment on the sonic purity of the signal, but it is clear. Played some CD rips through the system and they sound nice and flat, just as they should on my system.I am waiting for my new computer before I install any included software, but I am looking forward to the built in DSP functionality.Edit:The supplied DSP effects are solid and can be used for playback/monitor only OR record friendly for a track. There's a couple guitar amp effects and a Compressor+EQ with independent operation. Also the reverb send/return busses are a neat addition.I use the EQ + Comp to give my condenser a little more closeness and it works as intended, nothing sticks out, very controllable and worth using to spice up playback.Nothing about the UR-22c has disappointed me, or let me down, it's exactly what I bought, exactly what I hoped to get integrated into my system.

Great interface for solo hobby recording like what I do from home in my spare time. Works great with my humbucker equipt electric guitar and has plenty of gain for condenser mics. Preamps get a little too noisy for my taste on dynamics, even my higher output Heil PR40 dynamic, so plan on getting a Cloudlifter or other inline signal boosting preamp if you plan to use a dynamic mic on quieter sources like spoken word.The dspMixFx software is simple and easy to use with a very short learning curve. I use this on a Windows 11 machine with Intel Alder Lake CPU and Z690 motherboard without any issues at all.As a plus (for me) the phantom power switch is on the rear of the unit instead of the front like most other audio interfaces, so you're much less likely to bump the +48v on or off by accident.

While overall I do like this product it would really be listed as 24bit rather than 32bit. You can in some very edge cases get this to connect at 32bit but it is only in a few applications and not in any capacity for live streaming. The fact is that the driver only supports 24bit and for other applications you can hook ASIO but only if the app is build from the ground up for that. This leaves 90% of your use cases as locked into 24bit. I also take issue with the software stack and registration. You have to jump trough a bunch of hoops only to find that many of these have been deprecated but are still necessary to register but then you have to manually migrate into some other app.On the positive side the audio interface is very stable and is very transparent. I like the build quality and the USB C connector use over older formats.I am marking this a one star based on the misleading marketing, if this is adjusted I will update this.

The Focusrite didnt work with my new laptop's USB-3 connectors. I read that this would, so I tried it, and it does.

I have a slight issue where upon restarting my PC I have to go into my audio devices in windows and disable and then re-enable the headphone playback before sound will work. Apart from that it's a good audio interface.