Lexicon Lambda

Pros: Small footprint, stands vertically! Bus-powered, very quiet, good gain for USB bus power, good features.

Cons: Pantheon VST only supports CubaseLE, Bright blue "USB" LED permanently on, incorrect published gain specs.

The Bottom Line: In my opinion, the best overall full-featured USB-powered audio interface. Some boutique products will do a single feature better (for more), but will lack major other features.

Review: I've done a ton of research on USB audio interfaces since they first debuted. I was also doing 4-track audio recording on a 66MHz 486 with 8MB RAM back in the mid-nineties (which got me into my career in computers). So I go way back with computer audio, ...