Steinberg CI2 - 9 Competitive Comparison Chart

CI2 and Cubase AI5 - Product Guide 31 of 31 Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH – July 2009
9 Competitive comparison chart
Competitive landscape
Feature M-Audio Lexicon Tascam Line6 Alesis EMU Tascam Digidesign Steinberg
Hardware part
Fast Track
Pro
Omega US-144
Pod
Studio
IO/2 0404 USB FireOne
Mbox2
Mini
CI2
Inputs simultaneously 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Outputs simultaneously 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Microphone inputs 2 XLR 2 XLR 2 XLR 2 XLR 2 XLR 2 XLR
2 XLR
combo
1 XLR
2 XLR
combo
Line Inputs 2 TRS 4 TRS 2 TRS 2 TRS 2 TRS 2 TRS 1 TRS 2 TRS 2 TRS
Analog outputs
2 TRS,
4 RCA
2 TRS 2 RCA 2 TRS 2 TRS 2 TRS 2 TRS 2 TRS
2 TRS
Instrument Inputs with HI-Z 2 TRS 1 TRS 1 TRS 2 TRS 2 TRS 2 TRS 1 TRS 2 TRS 1 TRS
+48V phantom power 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2
Phones output 1 TRS 1 TRS 1 TRS 1 TRS 1 TRS 1 TRS 2 TRS 1 TRS 1 TRS
USB-powered Yes No Yes Yes Yes No FW Yes Yes Yes
Resolution
24 bit/
96 kHz
24 bit/
48 kHz
24 bit/
96 kHz
24 bit/
48 kHz
24 bit/
48 kHz
24 bit/
192 kHz
24 bit/
96 kHz
24 bit/
48 kHz
24 bit/
48 kHz
Footswitch connector No No No No No No Yes No Yes
Hardware
latency-free monitoring
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes
AI Knob No No No No No No No No Yes
Hands-free recording No No No No No No No No Yes
Browse function No No No No No No No No Yes
Interactive Recording No No No No No No No No Yes
MIDI 1in, 1out 1in, 1out 1in, 1out No 1in, 1out 1in, 1out 1in, 1out No No
Software part
Ableton
Live Lite 5
Cubase
LE
Cubase
LE
Ableton
Live Lite 7
Cubase
LE
Cubase
LE
Cubase
LE
Pro Tools
LE
Cubase
AI 5
Physical In/Out 2 stereo 8 8 2 stereo 8 8 8 18 16
MIDI Tracks Unlimited Up to 64 Up to 64 Unlimited Up to 64 Up to 64 Up to 64 Up to 256 Up to 64
Playback of audio track 64 48 48 64 48 48 48 Up to 48 48
Instrument Tracks 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 Up to 48 16
VST Instrument slots 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 Up to 48 2
Number of VST audio
effect plug-ins
23 22 22 23 22 22 22 70
31
Number of instrument
sounds
25 25 25 25 25 7+
135
SRP € incl. 19% VAT 249 € 315 € 195 € 236 € 189 € 299 € 289 € 339 € 229 €
Street Price incl. 19% VAT 185 € 165 € 155 € 189 € 125 € 189 € 129 € 275 € 189 €
Market entry Jan 06 Feb 04 Oct 06 Nov 08 Dec 05 Sep 06 Apr 07 Nov 06 Sep 09