A forceful slam on my desk made the headphone input lose audio in the right ear, so the headphone jack is a little less durable.

But on the bright side of things, I’d have to recommend this to anyone looking for an amazing interface for a mid range budget.

With a full metal casing, two ports for XLR and 1/4 inch cables, audio monitoring, phantom power, easy install, and easy plug in, how could I not recommend this?
As well as having 1/4 inch BALANCED TRS outputs in the back and two ways to power the device.

It’s very comprehensive, simplistic, yet a powerful little interface.

I’ve had no need to contact the support team with how easy going this interface is, and it reads directly into my DAW or OBS software after the driver setup.

It requires a little bit of tampering in your control panel to get it working inside of game chats, and Discord, Zoom, or the like.

Easy fix is the set it as your default device, and if it still doesn’t work, try another usb port on your motherboard.

Hope this helps! and happy recording!

This thing worked right out of the box (on Mac, so no drives needed), and I love it. I’ve been struggling figuring out a music workflow for years, and finally this + Ableton Live + an Arturia controller I’ve had forever and I’ve recorded almost twenty demos in a month. And having the ability to plug my bass or guitar directly into this and record DI is killer for quickly getting ideas out.

I couldn’t be happier. I’ll update this if I have latency issues in the future, but this box is so good.

This is a desktop 2 in, 2 out USB Audio iface that supports your standard 24-bit/192kHz resolution. The unit shell is metal. Rock solid. In fact, when i opened this, i accidentally dropped it on concrete outside in my garage. I gasped. But other than a slight scratch on the corner, the product works just fine. So inadvertently I tested the robustness. Just to compare, similarly popular and priced Focusrite Solo, is metal housing to but theres a lot of plastic on the inner housing.

I’d like to compare this with my Focusrite Scarlett solo because its priced similarly and has similar features.

1. As mentioned, physical housing, Roland wins hands down. All metal shell . no plastic. Focusrite is metal but the inner bezel is all plastic. Drop test comparison , i’d easily put my bet on Roland. Having said that, the Roland is double the size and much heavier than Focusrite solo. This might be a factor for you if you plan to move around with it.

2. Both units support Direct monitoring but Roland’s has a Stereo/MONO switch in the back which is really nice. Stereo mode, youre input 1 and 2 are separated in left and right ears. Could come in handy in recording. Focusrite is just mono. Both units have really clean direct monitoring equally able to drive a decent set of monitor headphones.

3. Roland and Focusrite supports 24-bit/192kHz … both are excellent. Cant really complain about either .

4. Mic preamp with phantom power is present on both units but I will admit the focusrite preamp does seem to give a bit more gain to my Shure SM57. Both are pretty clean and hard to find much difference in recordings. But for my Shure mic, i use an inline cloudlifter preamp so i dont really have an issue with the slight difference

5. Roland unit comes with classic midi in/out ports. Focusrite doesnt.

6. Roland has a ground lift. EXCELLENT. Focusrite does not. I found this to be really helpful to get rid of hum especially for my setup. The hum is completely eliminated and direct monitoring is completely silent. even more silent than Focusrite which has no ground lift.

7. Focusrite now has an “air” button for the Mic input. Instant treble boost button basically. Actually grown to like having this switch , especially some times to brighten up SM57. Roland has no such switch. It will be missed. But you dont really need this for recordings since you can EQ. But for Live setting, That air button is really handy.

I’m super happy with This rubix22. It’s an excellent audio interface that in my opinion is superior to Focusrite Solo . I think it is superior to the Focusrite 2i2 as well since thats the bigger brother of Solo that doesnt really add much more . I can easily recommend this over the Focusrite.

Hope this helps!

This is a good solution for a non-professional project studio if precise level setting is not a big issue. Unfortunately, without that software, this is more of a consumer-level product.