Zen Q Synergy Core Audio Interface, 14x10 Bus-Powered USB-C Interface For Recording Music, 2 Input Instruments, Onboard Real-Time Audio Recording Effects, USB Connectivity - Antelope Audio

Listen, I have been an active musician and audio engineer for the last 20 years. Antelope makes some of the best value interfaces you can find. They are a little under the radar and in the past got some flak for their customer service. I have contacted their customer service and they are extremely helpful and will resolve any problem you have in a timely manner. They give you the best bang for your buck and their proprietary technology (FPGA) will give you the some of the best analog/vintage sounding plugins in the world. Give them a try, I’ve been happy ever since.

Using this on a Windows 10 machine. I have given up on this. The thing sounds great. However, not worth it after it doesn't function as it should and has a serious defect. The thunderbolt port has extra wiggle room that makes it easy to snap off the connection from the main board. This happened with very little effort. There is too much room in the port (worse than in the picture) that makes it so that any tension up or down can loosen the thunderbolt from the housing. I sent it in for repairs and it took them weeks to update me on my status. Then finally they tell me the entire mainboard has to be replaced - $569!!! That seems outrageous given the total price of the unit and the fact that I wasn't manhandling it or doing anything crazy.While I was waiting for repair, I ordered another one as backup, figuring with how slow the repairs are I should order another one in case this happened again. That one arrived with the same port issue and the headphones 1 output is putting out constant noise. Returned!What a piece of junk. It crashes constantly on windows 10 and I have to reconnect or restart the audio engine or both. This is probably part of why the port broke because I had to reconnect it a million times in order to use it. They say it's compatible with windows 10 but you have to download a third party program in order to use it and it obviously has some serious compatibility issues.Absolutely horrible experience. Why do these manufacturers (UA included) say these items are compatible with Windows, only to find out they are not. Now I have to go back to USB even though I purchased an expensive motherboard with thunderbolt, because I figured I'd be able to use this interface. You live and you learn.

Once I got through setup and registration the rest was fairly easy.I'm running it on a Mac Studio Ultra Thunderbolt connect.No latency.But the sound is super clear and very revealing.i had a couple questions and called tech support and they picked right up and walked me throughmy issue. This is a top of the line pro grade interface with excellent clocking.

I wanted to keep this interface, but even with the workaround Voicemeeter software it does not work properly with normal windows apps such as Discord. Very good sounding preamps and I love how they did the DSP and whatnot. They need to complete the TB3 driver and maybe it will make this a viable interface.

Got the item in and there where no issues but you have to register the device before you can use it. Meaning you have to create an account which takes some basic information and should be easy. But I have spent a whole day trying to make a basic account with no success and decided that I needed to go another direction. Their website sucks.

Crystal Clarity, With Depth, Thickness and Detail. If you have the budget, get it. It brought a whole new dimension in my monitors. This was a massive upgrade from Focusrite Scarlett. Works well with Windows 10 and No issues unlike Universal Audio Apollos.

bought the Zen Q Synergy Core online because I wanted to upgrade my recording setup and it was a win for me, the effects are great and I have a lot of ports at my disposal with the adat and spdif in and out I would recommend it to anyone who wants pristine preamps for recording.

Great interface. The converters are a huge upgrade compared to my old UAD Apollo. Driver installation is not as straightforward as other brands for first time users. The team writing the manual took things for granted by assuming that the end user is familiar with the system. The Premium plugins offer did not install automatically as it was stated on the email. The Tech Support team kindly gave me a claim code to redeem. I found out that tech support and customer service have made huge improvement. If they continue to iron the kinks, then I would definitely purchase the Orion Studio. Great product!