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Interface companies at war!

We’re noticing more and more bad news these days and assuming – otherwise we’d get very depressed – that the world isn’t going to hell in a hard drive crash, but it’s simply because ‘bad news means clicks’. Take our headline, for example: it’s not like Arturia, PreSonus and UA have gone to war – several large music technology company’s literally firing VST missiles at one another across the Atlantic – but merely that they’ve released interfaces that sit in a similar price range, at the same time. But it got you reading this didn’t it? You see? War. What is it good for? Clicks, that’s what.

Yes, perhaps realising that the whole world is a few quid short this Christmas, (thanks to politicians, footballers and other celebs using offshore tax havens), at least three music tech companies are offering great deals on new interfacing gear.

First out of the gate is Arturia with their MiniFuses 1, 2 and 4. These 1-in/2-out, 2-in-2-out and 4-in/4-out connectivity interfaces (we’ll let you

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