I bought this early on, before it was made available in my country through the usual channels with local distributors. I had seen the accompanying software and thought it was a good idea to get both a digital interface and an amp plugin in one go. The hardware works great, the amp plugins (St James) are very good, always in relation to the price. One thing I should point out is that the instructions about downloading the Blackstar audio ASIO drivers were not clear, so I had to do some searching but they got better at that, plus they responded relatively quickly to my questions. Also the input does get saturated at lower level than I am used to with my Steinberg ur22c and it's only 24 bit sampling vs 32 bit with the ur22c. However, that doesn't really play an important part. The product is great, it sounds great, it's more than enough to have fun and record and it's also very light to carry around. I tested it with monitors as well, not bad at all Blackstar.