Looking for an Audio Interface - Price Range form 800$ to 1000$

[lemerbi]

Hello everyone, this is my first post on KVR, so I apologize in advance if I am posting in the wrong forum section.

I have recently finished my new studio and since it will be a professional studio, I intend to buy proper equipment for its purpose.
For this reason, the first purchase I am going to make will be a good Audio Interface.

My budget is from $800 to $1000.

I Need:
- I would like to have an interface with at least 8 total inputs, to allow me to record vocals, guitars, bass, and keyboards.
- I would like to have the ability to load DSPs directly onboard.
- I work with Windows so I am looking for a board compatible with this operating system
- I would like fairly low latency and quality ADCs.
- If the board was expandable that would be great but not a key point.
- At least 2 headphone outputs or possibly an expandable output for multiple headphones

I DON'T need:
- I don't need a high number of outputs and inputs since I won't be recording live drums and I don't plan to use large analog racks. (Maybe one analog compressor but nothing more).
- I don't need wifi connections to the phone rather than other such connections.
- It does not need to be a card with thunderbolt output, USB is fine with me as well
- I do not need to connect many speakers, I use 2 Yamaha HS8s and a mono speaker for mix check. (Maybe I will put a subwoofer in the future but I am not sure).

Thank you all for the help

[Terlisimo]

Hi,

I just posted a review of Presonus Quantum 2626 in this forum and it ticks all your boxes except "ability to load DSPs". Also it is Thunderbolt only.

Hope this helps.

[lemerbi]

Sadly the DSP feature is very important to me but also something really difficult to find in an Audio interface, especially with my other requests...
I'm not that familiar with PreSonus audio interfaces, so I'm gonna take a look anyways!
Feel free to suggest other options if they happen to cross your mind