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Wednesday, Mar 25
Style: PreSonus
Size: 2626
Features
- The fastest Thunderbolt 3 audio interface around, with round-trip latency of less than 1 ms.
- 8 front-mounted ultra-transparent XMAX analog mic preamps give pristine quality.
- 24-bit/192kHz digital converters deliver amazingly clean sound with 120dB of dynamic range
- Comes with over $1000 worth of recording software including Studio One Artist, Ableton Live Lite, and Studio Magic plug-in suite.
- Equipped with 2 combo mic/instrument inputs and 6 mic/line inputs.
- 2 direct outputs with dedicated line-level returns for inserting output gear.
- Up to 26-in/26-out when expanded via dual ADAT Optical.
- Contains 14 TRS Left and Right main outputs and 8 14 TRS line outputs, DC-coupled.
- 2 14 headphone outputs with dedicated volume.
- Dual ADAT Optical, S/PDIF, MIDI, and BNC word clock I/O
Description
Record and monitor through your favorite plug-ins inside your DAW with the blazing fast speed only Quantum interfaces can deliver. The Quantum 2626 takes advantage of the jaw-dropping speed of Thunderbolt 3 to achieve a barely-measurable round-trip latency of less than 1 ms. Superb high- definition digital conversion and eight ultra-transparent analog XMAX mic preamps ensure your audio always sounds its best. Insert your favorite outboard gear with two direct preamp outputs and dedicated line-level returns. Expand your system up to 26 simultaneous inputs and outputs using ADAT Optical. Streamline your recording process and make better music, faster with the Quantum 2626. From the Manufacturer The world’s fastest interface, with a round-trip latency of less than 1 ms, using the Thunderbolt 3 bus; record and monitor through your favorite plug-ins in real time at up to 24-bit/192 kHz; 8 front-mounted, pristine XMAX analog mic preamps; 2 direct preamp outputs and 2 line returns for outboard effects; 8 balanced DC coupled analog outputs can provide control voltage to external analog equipment, using a DAW plug-in; up to 26 simultaneously inputs and outputs when expanded via ADAT Optical.
Brand: PreSonus
Compatible Devices: Headphone, Instrument, MIDI Hardware, Microphone, Personal Computer, Smartphone, Studio Monitors, Tablet See more
Supported Software: Compatible with Studio One Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Reaper, and many more. See more
Connectivity Technology: Thunderbolt
Number of Channels: 26
Item Weight: 5 pounds
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 19 x 1.75 inches
Item model number: QUANTUM 2626
Date First Available: January 2, 2020
Compatible Devices: Headphone, Instrument, MIDI Hardware, Microphone, Personal Computer, Smartphone, Studio Monitors, Tablet
Hardware Interface: Thunderbolt
Supported Software: Compatible with Studio One Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Reaper, and many more.
Size: 2626
Operating System: Windows, macOS
Voltage: 120 Volts
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Top Amazon Reviews
Style: PreSonus
Size: 2626
This is above all a great sounding interface. I recently moved to this platform from an old Focusrite Saffore Pro 40 Firewire. I still have that interface in my studio so I was able to A/B compare it with the Quantum 2626 Thunderbolt 3 interface. The difference in sound quality is immediately apparent. The best and most detailed comparison I could make between the two was by listening to the same audio tracks played on both interfaces through a pair of Sony Z1R headphones. The dynamics and overall clarity of the Q 2626 is far superior to the Pro 40. It's a major upgrade. Perhaps that is to be expected due to the difference in age between the two platforms but I was always happy with the sound of the Pro 40, until I heard the Q 2626. I'd like to point out (as other reviewers have) what is perhaps thr biggest flaw in this unit, the lack of any hardware monitoring for any of the audio inputs. That omission has been fairly criticized but it's not a dead end to your workflow that some other reviewers have implied. If you plug anything into the XLR/TRS inputs on the Q 2626 you WILL NOT hear it through the headphone jacks or the main outputs without doing more setup. This is not what most people are used to with their audio interfaces and I'd never encountered it in over 20 uears of audio production using many different audio interfaces in that time. In order to hear your microphone, guitar, keyboard or whatever you have plugged in to the Q 2626 you need to open your DAW software of choice and route the audio signal through there first. For example you plug your mic or instrument into the front panel of the Q 2626, then open a new project your DAW program of choice. I will use Cakewalk by Bandlab for example as it's a well known and free DAW but the steps will be roughly the same for any DAW like Reaper, Studio One, Pro Tools, etc. Open a new project in your DAW software and select or insert an empty audio track, then press the button on the track that will enable Live Monitoring. In Cakewalk that would be the "input echo" button right next to the Record Arm button on the audio track. Once you do that you should immediately hear the audio from whatever you have plugged into the Q2626. If not then make sure you have the input on your audio track in your DAW set receive audio from the Q 2626 input where your mic or instrument is plugged in (Cakewalk has a drop down menu on the track to select this) and make sure the output on the same audio track is set to the Master Out for your mix, AND that your Master bus is set to output to the Q 2626. It's easy for any experienced audio engineer or hobbyist, and while it may be work for a beginner, once you get a track template set up and saved you just need to reload it each time you need to monitor or record and you're all set. That being said I do not prefer this implementation and would have liked Presonus to include a hardware mixer built in. I can only hope it was a worthwhile trade off from a design and engineering perspective and not some plan to get users hooked on subscription based audio production software from Presonus or to buy one of their outboard hardware mixers.. Even cheap $50 audio interfaces have hardware monitoring and have forever, but maybe a quality hardware monitoring implementation would have been too expensive? I'm stretching to give Presonus the benefit of the doubt here. There is an idea that because this is a Thunderbolt 3 interface that latency is a non factor, but there is always monitoring latency, and it will become worse if you are recording in a project with 100-200+ audio tracks and running dozens of plug in effects forcing you to increase the buffer size and adding more latency to live monitoring. Most people don't have such needs though, and others who do cam get around it by upgrading their computer hardware to be more powerful if necessary. That being said what matters in the end to me is the quality of the audio this thing can produce. I don't think you can do better for the money. It's much better than I was expecting as having heard other Presonus interfaces in the past I was not impressed, but this unit is different and exceeded my expectations for audio quality by quite a lot. The preamps are full bodied and quiet even when turned all the way up. They also deliver great dynamics (to my ears) and the DI for guitar & bass excels in my opinion. It passes a very full, dynamic and clean DI signal that amp sims should love. It sounds great with Neural DSP Architype plug ins for example, partly because of the quality of the input from the Q 2626 preamp (use a good quality guitar cable too). Vocally the preamps also sound great to me, although there is likely better out there if you want to spend a lot more. These will be more than enough for most people if they have a decent mic to plug in. Another point I want to make is about the power plug on the back of the Q 2626. Yes it's a small plug similar to one you'd see on an external hard drive or laptop computer, but what's not readily apparent is that it's a twist-to-lock plug. You have to insert it and give it a press-twist to lock it in place. Once that's done the plug will not wobble and will stay in place much more securely. The power button on the back of the unit was a design mistake. It's rack mount so most people can forget about being able to use it once the interface is racked. You'd have to leave it on 24/7 or rig it through a power strip or similar that has it's own on/off switch. If it's sitting on your desktop it's less of a problem, or you can rack it on the bottom and leave an open space to get your hand behind it. The unit is not very deep, only about 6 inches so it's not too bad if you have to do this. Build quality is solid. The unit jas a good weight to it and the volume knobs have a nice resistance to them, they don't feel like cheap loose spinners. As for Thunderbolt 3 just make sure you are set up correctly if it's not a native feature of your computer. In my case I run Windows 10 x64 on an AMD CPU platform that I built. My motherboard (Gigabyte) has a Thunderbolt header on it and I'm using Gigabyte's Titan Ridge 2.0 Thunderbolt 3 PCI card. In my case I had to make sure I was using the correct PCI slot (the PCI x4 slot, usually located as the bottom slot on newer motherboards) and had to make sure the thunderbolt header on the motherboard was plugged into the Titan Ridge card and that both power cables were plugged into the back of the Titan Ridge card. You may also need a BIOS update to unlock thunderbolt fucntionality depending on the age of your BIOS. If you are an Intel or Mac user and your system came with native thunderbolt support you won't have to worry about any of this, which is great. Assuming you have your thunderbolt connection properly set up you should get very good speed from this interface. If you are a windows user there are things you can do to further improve performance and reduce latency like turning off HPET, disabling C-States, setting power modes to max performance, and more you can look up elsewhere. I should mention that you WILL hear audio from your PC right out of the box when you plug the Q2626 in, so unlike jumping through hoops with live hardware monitoring, you can plug in to your conputer and hear audio from websites or games or MP3/FLAC players, or anything else. Quality is great too. Overall I feel this is a good unit for the money that should last many years. If you can deal with a few quirks then I think you'll find it worth your while as the quality of the audio makes up for any other shortcomings.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2023 by Sean
Style: PreSonus
Size: 2626
The media could not be loaded. I'm also using the (ASUS ThunderboltEX 4 with Intel® Thunderbolt™ 4 JHL 8540 Controller) If anyone is wondering. I've picked up a UAD Apollo 2 weeks ago prior to this purchase to use on my Windows 11 PC and it was the worst decision I've made in my music production. It connected but did not function as intended because I found out sooner than later that the UAD drivers were not optimize for Windows. No matter how much I tried and It will work not as intended because of UAD's behalf. List of things I did to my PC just for the "UAD Apollo" to work (I DON'T WORK BTW) 1.Change the device settings in Device Manager like turn power saving on the apollo 2.Change unnecessary bios settings than potentially brake your pc for the apollo to "work" 3.Change Windows Sound settings to sync with the buffer size / sample rate 4.Give up cuz it ain't gonna work PreSonus Quantum 2626 process was, Plug and play right out the box so downloading and installing driver was a no brainer. Yes, I use Fl Studio. Yes, ~5ms is good enough to record vocals (with FXs). I'm glad with what I've purchased.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2024 by Carlos R Carlos R
Style: PreSonus
Size: 2626
This is something like my 5th audio interface that I’ve owned. One of those prior ones was the Presonus FP10 which this is something of the spiritual successor to. I’ve also used the UA Apollo Twin for a couple of weeks. This is the best audio interface I’ve ever owned by far. The interface sounds clean, but the real selling feature is the low latency. I can pretty much promise you that the interface won’t be the limiting factor in your setup. I can run on 16 samples at 96khz and get sub-ms response times cleanly (as long as it’s on a very simple use case). I can monitor inputs over ASIO with absolutely no detectable latency for things like vocals, guitar, etc. The lack of live monitoring is a bit unfortunate, but that kind of goes with the idea that you don’t need live monitoring when the latency is this low. Use something like voicemeeter if you need live monitoring. Compared to the Apollo Twin, this thing absolutely dominates. The Twin didn’t give me much better performance than FireWire interfaces I’ve used (yeah you read that right).
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Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2021 by Jeff
Style: PreSonus
Size: 2626
works good make sure to SCREW THE POWER PLUG INTO THE BACK! I didnt realize the power plug thing actually screws in a certain tricky way locking it into the back, if you dont do this it will have a horrible power connection
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2025 by Ryan
Style: PreSonus
Size: 2626
The media could not be loaded. Is a great producto and very excellent. 100% garantizado
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2023 by Songs of Heaven
Style: PreSonus
Size: 2626
If you can’t record with other tracks playing in real time….what’s the point? Absolutely terrible. Fire that product designer. Thunderbolt 3 completely sucks ass. The Firepods were outstanding and I built a CPU just to continue using them.
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2022 by Arthur C. Partida
Style: PreSonus
Size: 2626
Originally the manufacturer website said this product was compatible with iPads with M1 processors and Thunderbolt connections. After I bought the product and tried to set it up, I found out from tech support that this product was not compatible with any iPads. They removed the iPad compatibility statement from their website but offered no alternatives or solutions. Tech support did not want to talk on the phone and only wanted to operate through online tickets. The last communication I sent them went unanswered so I was forced to return the product.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2021 by D. W.