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And if you're in the market for a budget interface, we've got all the best offers in our Black Friday audio interface deals hub. Looking for epic music gear bargains? We're tracking all of this year's biggest savings over on our Black Friday music deals page. We've included loads more buying advice on budget interfaces at the bottom of this feature, so if you are totally new to the world of music production, you might want to jump to that first. But quality costs, right? Usually, yes, but you can now get great budget audio interfaces from around $/£60, and we have the best of these right here from big names including Focusrite, Presonus, Steinberg and Mackie.

You could do all of this via a standard built-in microphone and headphone socket on your computer, but an interface adds a pro level signal path, connectors and audio conversion, meaning that what you record in and play out will be of the highest sonic quality. You can then use this audio in your tunes, and listen to the results via the same interface through your headphones or loudspeakers. Put simply, audio interfaces let you record audio from the outside world - guitars, vocals, instruments, beats, you name it - into your computer.

Free downloads Steinberg VST Live Pro 1.2