Arturia AudioFuse Studio

Perfect Upgrade

I bought this unit as a replacement for my Clarette 2pre, due to my home studio's expansion.

Overall very impressed by the build quality. The layout of the unit's front panel makes perfect sense and is very user friendly. 2 headphone outputs are very welcome for a/b reference listening with some excellent on board amplification (driving 250ohms with ease). My only complaint would be the abscence of a hardware real time monitoring control (though it's not too much of a bother to open the software with the dedicated button on the front panel).

Overall a great choice for a studio upgrade.

Amazing Interface!

Simply the best if you don't need thousand of UAD plugins.

Great quality for whatever kind of music you desire to record.

Great interface!

I sold my Apollo Twin mkII for this and it’s definitely worth it!

Great monitoring capabilities with three presets available directly from the interface. (You have to set them up in a computer but after that they’re standalone)

I have two gripes with this interface.

One is that there are no mute switches, a thing I’ve grown accustomed to with my gear hooked up to a mixer in to the apollo interface. This way i could mute noisy stuff but still have it set up for quick recording.

This can be worked around by having cues set for muting but then you’ll lose cues for live recording with other musicians.

The second gripe is that you have to use the software for setting up the interface and make changes to it, for example, setting it up for re-amping. This is normal interface stuff which I had with my Apollo and my old Liquid Saffire but for me, about to make the change from mac to ipad recording, it’s annoying that i cant use an app for it. But for normal pc/mac users it’s no issue.

I love all the connections and they help a lot in building a hardware based, as little daw as possible, studio.

Great sturdy construction.

Great sound!

Nice preamps!

Two headphone amps!

Re-amping and two monitor sets!

Phono.

Midi!

Blue-tooth was a surprisingly nice feature.

I won’t miss my old UA interface!

Great Stuff

This audio interface has everything you need. Great preamps with tons of gain, controls for almost every function right on the face. Great build quality. Great software. If you're looking for a high quality interface for your studio, this is it.

Great piece of equipment

This has really given me an all in one option to handle any possible scenario in a home studio. Want to use a guitar with an amp sim, sure. Have a friend with you and want to jam out with some midi instruments... two headphone outs. Have an old turntable and some vinyl to sample... phono in (also doubles as a rca line in). Want to quickly switch from speaker A to B to hear how your mix sounds on other speakers... press a button. Have a singer and a couple instruments to plug in... up to four. Basically, I can't imagine a scenario it cannot handle for a home studio and it has more features than I'll ever need. I've done all these things and it was wonderfully easy to work with. The only thing that ever tripped me up was learning that to use loopback, you must be using a sample rate of 44100 or 48000. Thank you, Arturia for making such a wonderful piece of equipment.

Top quality and best I/O package

PROs

-Preamps are really good, quiet and have lots of gain, more than enough headroom, for reference 60% gain can drive a Beta58 loud enough.

-There's no other option on the market that have so many I/O and in a desktop interface size

-there are a lot of buttons and some of them are configurable, convenient for working quickly

-2 pair of Speaker out and 2 headphone out is great to have, though there is only 3 monitor mixes (good enough to me)

-Headphone out is powerful enough to drive K702 and HD650 at 50-70% volume

-Bluetooth is handy, very happy to have, but do not expect the quality anywhere close to the wired inputs

-USB cables that comes with it feels sturdy and looks cool.

-work smoothly on both my mac and PC without any issues at all

-Love the USB hub function, especially if you are a macbook user like me

CONS

-It can get a bit warm when in use but acceptable.

-Latency is not as good as the thunderbolt interfaces, it's USB 2.0 afterall

If you want an interface with 4 quality pres, 8 analog input, expandable, portable and do not need DSP, this is a very good option