PRESONUS AudioBox iTwo

The Presonus AudioBox iTwo is a compact USB-powered sound card that lets you record anywhere in up to 96 kHz/24-bit quality. It's the ideal solution for home studios, travel, podcast or electronic music production. You can easily record all your ideas to your PC, Mac or iPad. There is also +48V phantom power for condenser microphones.

The front panel of the soundcard offers a pair of combined instrument/microphone inputs and a headphone input. Panel controls determine the input signal volume, input to playback ratio, overall volume and headphone output volume. On the back, in addition to a pair of analogue speaker outputs, there's also a MIDI input and output, so you can easily connect MIDI controllers or synthesizers and other peripherals to your computer using the card.

The package includes a two-track Capture Duo app for iPad. So you can mix your recordings professionally right away, the manufacturers in the package offer advanced editing and DAW software Studio One Artist and a Studio Magic plug-in package that includes an equalizer, compressors, effects processors, or a collection of physically modeled analog synths from manufacturers like Plugin Alliance, SPL, Brainworx, Arturia, Lexicon, and more.