The big news this year, of course, is the no-show of the NAMM show, the event where all the new music production gear is usually announced. But just because this annual Californian shindig did not happen, it didn’t stop the gear from being released and there have been more audio interface announcements than ever lighting up our email inboxes.
First up is a debut offering from highquality hardware outboard manufacturers Black Lion Audio. It’s a brave move for anyone to enter the somewhat crowded arena of the audio interface – as amply demonstrated by this news story – but BLA are going for it with some aplomb. In fact, if you were to believe the over-the-top press release, you’d think they’d invented some kind of hardware COVID vaccine. “Indeed, it takes time to truly revolutionise buspowered, studio-grade audio interface design, and Revolution represents the revolutionary result!” it parps.
After such a claim, you want Revolution to fall on its arse but actually BLA have packed their DA/AD hardware expertise into the 2x2 interface plus a decent software bundle and it retails for just $399. Whether that really makes it (Jesus, whatever next?) “the audio interface the world has always asked for” is probably not quite the case, but we’ll review it and decide soon.
One of these is the interface the whole world has been asking for. No, really