polarbear
Yea I just don't know if I could realistically fit it on my desk, even with the new big desk i'm gonna get...

I wouldn't put more than one keyboard on a desk anyway.  My second one is off to my left (at right angles) on a keyboard stand.

haha yea i just ordered something from sweetwater recently and got a call a few days later from the dude asking if he could help me order more stuff from them... so who knows, maybe i'll take him up on the offer if they're willing to do some dealin :-)

Thanks Cactus... Those are exactly what I'm looking at as my top 2 picks... well the smaller 2i4 because I really don't need 6 in and 6 out. I'll never use the additional ins and outs... BUT at last minute I might decide to pick that one just cause of the small price difference. But yea, Scarlett and Steinberg are my 2 top picks.

 
Bummer update: my new UR-44 has problems with the hi-z audio inputs.  Sweetwater will ship out a replacement in June when they get more stock in.  The mic inputs work so I can use a direct box for guitars for now. 
 
I also have to work on how X3 sees it.  I have not been able yet to have the ASIO-Steinberg audio driver show all the inputs of the unit thru X3.  I do see all the inputs thru Studio One and also thru Auria and Cubasis on my iPad.
 

for sure.   I'm getting one tomorrow.  Crazy Sweetwater is backordered that far back.  To some degree, that speaks for the unit however, on a positive note.

the other thread all sounds very positive.  Recording the audio while doing screen shots is a nice extra.  I'll have to investigate camtasia, I guess, as I'm not currently able to record on my computer and do screen shots at the same time.  Was going to go the two computer route (use an old one just for audio).
I"m wondering if these are the same D pres that Yamaha uses on their current line of low cost mixers.  Not that that means anything, but they call them D pres on the mixers, as does Steinberg on these units.  Quite honestly, as long as they are clean and have half decent headroom, that's fine.  I'm not currently into the $1500 mic pre at this point and not sure if that will ever happen either.  Something like an ART Pro II for a couple hundred might suit the level I need, just fine as these Steinberg pres might also.

Update:  I can now get voice and DAW output into Camtasia.  Turns out I used Line Outputs 1 and 2 from the UR-44 into the line in on my computer.  Camtasia recognizes that line in so now it all works well.  
 

Congrats Polabear!! I'm sure you're going to be very happy with it.

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For two channels I am digging the Universal Audio Apollo Twin. The RME stuff is converts phenomenally well.
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