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    STEINBERG UR-RT4 Audio Interface

    Jun 21, 2018 5 minutes
    Review: Andrew Bencina

    No doubt, the first thing you noticed about Steinberg’s UR-RT desktop interfaces were those tailored Rupert Neve Designs transformers, integrated into the signal path as switchable inserts following the Yamaha-designed D-PRE preamp outputs. Beyond the RND-adornments, the two UR-RT boxes are fairly straightforward: the four in/ two out UR-RT2, and six in/four out UR-RT4, each channel 24-bit/192k audio and MIDI to and from Windows, macOS and iOS devices, via USB 2.0. Notwithstanding the differences in channel count, size and price ($599 and $999 respectively), the UR-RT sisters share the same hardware, driver and bundled software (Cubase AI, Cubasis and Basic FX Suite of VST3 plug-ins). For this review I was working with the more amply endowed of the two.

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    The UR-RT4 is built like a brick house. It’s reassuringly hefty, plain-looking yet refined, and bedecked with silky aluminium knobs. While few

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