ARTURIA AudioFuse 8Pre £669
Arturia has always been a company you can trust in when it comes to quality, so I was keen to review their latest addition to the AudioFuse series, mainly due to this unit being more attractive to my own personal needs than their previous two interfaces. After some research I found that originally, people were rightly sceptical about the company’s venture into the audio interface market, but surprisingly consumers have been extremely happy to date, a risk that has paid off for Arturia. President Frédéric Brun stated in 2014 that the reasoning behind the company’s decision to branch into the interface market was mainly due to modern-day musicians being forced to live and work with problems related to workflow, compatibility, and even audio quality. He felt that he had a responsibility to change things up, even though he was warned not to go into a heavily saturated market, but this desire to do something different won through.
EXPANDING THE RANGE
The two previous AudioFuse interfaces have been squarely aimed at smaller desktop type studios that require no more than four microphone, line inputs and very little outputs, not forgetting MIDI I/O compatibility to create the dream combo interface. Great, but what about the bigger studios wanting a dedicated micPre and A/D converter? Well, Arturia answer that question, and it’s a bold move with so much other competition out there right now in the same price point.
It’s always a huge bonus when you can power up an interface,
