Behringer today introduced the CU1A 2 In/2 Out USB/Audio Interface for Eurorack modular systems.
The CU1A is designed to make it easy to record audio from your modular on your computer, or to route audio from your computer into your modular synthesizer.
Features:
- Audio interface connects your modular setup with your computer for recording and playback
- High-resolution 48 kHz converters for high-end audio quality
- Works with your PC or Mac computer—no setup or drivers required
- Stereo headphones output with dedicated Level control lets you monitor both input and output
- Powered via USB Type C – no power absorbed from your modular system
- Eurorack specs: 8 HP, 0 mA +12 V, 0 mA -12 V
Pricing and Availability:
The Behringer CU1A is shipping from their factory now and is priced at $79 USD.
“High resolution 48 kHz converters” at 16-bits? 24-bits?
Gotta love a company that releases an audio interface without providing basic technical information.
I think it’s only 16 bits since it’s a USB audio class-compliant interface…
I think 16-bit depth is more than enough for modular synthesis. It allows a sufficient STN for this environment, I think an average module emits by itself far more noise than the available 96dB range.
Rather, it would have been interesting to have 96kHz resolution, but being only an IN/OUT module without processing, there should probably be no problem with aliasing.
At most a few tenths of a dB of non-linearity at the band extremes of magnitudo and phase. But, again… for modular sounds is more than enough.
“High-resolution 48 kHz converters for high-end audio quality”
Most people in the eurorack world will not be fooled by this.
A simple cheap usb output module with headphones is awsome!
Nice to see them not ripping off other people’s designs and creating a useful module instead. Smart move to bypass case power.
That’s funny. They made an audio interface that looks like a vintage Moog module!
much more important is the question: are the outputs dc coupled or not and can I use them 4 gate and cv out or not and will they provide line level outputs, +4 dbu or 10 Volts? As its only an interface with 2 inputs and 2 output channels, you cant listen over headphones to something different from the pc as the two output connectors.