Audient iD 44

Audient iD44 Overview

• 20-in, 24 out Desktop Audio Interface
• metal housing
• Control knobs made of solid, hand-milled aluminium
• 4 Class A Audient Consoles Microphone Preamplifier
• 60 dB gain
• Top class AD/DA converters
• 2 x ADAT In- and Outs for digital extension
• 24 bit
• 44.1 - 96 kHz
• 2 x Discrete JFET instrument inputs
• 2 x Symmetrical inserts
• 2 x independent stereo headphone outputs
• Main and old speaker outputs
• ScrollControl for DAW remote control
• 3 x User-defined function keys
• Talkback, dimming and cut buttons
• On/Off switch
• Low latency DSP mixer
• wordlock out
• High Speed USB 2
• power switches
• incl. comprehensive Audient Arc download software package

Summary from SOS magazine February 2019

PROS

• Superb audio performance overall.
• iD Mixer application provides cue and monitor mixing.
• Twin eight-channel ADAT I/O for input expansion.
• Compatible with both Windows and Mac computers.

CONS

• Beware of phantom power switch-on transients.

SUMMARY

The iD44 is a compact, well-featured 20-in/24-out desktop USB interface that, in combination with the companion iD Mixer application, possesses a feature set, a level of functionality and an ease of operation that punches well above its price.

CONCLUSION

Although the combination of the iD44 and the iD Mixer app is their most complex desktop USB audio interface to date, it seems to me that Audient have, once again, managed to get the balance between functionality, usability and form factor just about right. In addition, the iD44 sounds good, delivers an exemplary audio performance and has a price that appears to me to offer very good value for money.

Although the iD44 is well-suited to being the centrepiece of a home or projected studio, its compact form factor and excellent mic amps and DIs, together with its ADAT-format connectivity should also make it very attractive to mobile recordists and to laptop-wielding musicians on the move.

- Bob Thomas, Sound on Sound (February 2019)