The US224's cool purple control surface gives you more than just mouseclicks for your DAW software. Like its big brother, the immensely popular US428, the US224 gives you real tactical controls like faders, transports, mutes and solos, panning and more. Plug in a guitar, mic or keyboard and get two channels of audio I/O in 16 or 24 bit quality, as well as 16 channels of MIDI I/O. Best of all, it's USB... Just plug in and go. No cards to install, no need to take your computer apart. High-quality 24-bit audio with two inputs and two outputsSelf-powered USB interface compatible with Mac and PCFour faders, transport/locate controls, data wheel and more for control of DAW parametersRecords at up to 48kHz, 24-bit resolution16-channel MIDI In/Out interfaceComplete package... Includes a special version of Steinberg Cubasis VST recording/MIDI software for Mac and WindowsSmall, portable and easy to use