--- product_id: 180965392 title: "Quantum 2626 with Studio One Pro Software" brand: "presonus" price: "€ 1346.53" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 category: "Pre Sonus" url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/180965392-quantum-2626-with-studio-one-pro-software store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # Sub-1ms Thunderbolt 3 latency 24-bit/192kHz converters, 120dB dynamic range 8 ultra-transparent XMAX mic preamps Quantum 2626 with Studio One Pro Software **Brand:** presonus **Price:** € 1346.53 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🎧 Quantum Leap Your Sound: The fastest, cleanest, and most expandable interface for pros who refuse to settle. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Quantum 2626 with Studio One Pro Software by presonus - **How much does it cost?** € 1346.53 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/180965392-quantum-2626-with-studio-one-pro-software) ## Best For - presonus enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted presonus brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Crystal-Clear Audio Capture:** Eight front-mounted XMAX analog mic preamps deliver pristine, ultra-transparent sound that elevates every vocal and instrument. - • **Expand Your Studio Universe:** Scale up to 26 simultaneous inputs/outputs via dual ADAT Optical ports—future-proof your creative workflow. - • **All-Inclusive Software Suite:** Unlock over $1000 in premium software including Studio One Artist, Ableton Live Lite, and the Studio Magic plug-in suite—start producing like a pro from day one. - • **Lightning-Fast Thunderbolt 3:** Experience near-zero latency with under 1 ms round-trip speed—record and monitor in real time without compromise. - • **Pro-Grade Digital Conversion:** 24-bit/192kHz converters with 120dB dynamic range ensure your recordings are clean, detailed, and studio-quality. ## Overview The PreSonus Quantum 2626 is a professional Thunderbolt 3 audio interface boasting ultra-low latency under 1 ms, eight premium XMAX mic preamps, and high-definition 24-bit/192kHz converters with 120dB dynamic range. It supports up to 26 simultaneous inputs and outputs via ADAT expansion and includes over $1000 worth of recording software, making it a powerhouse solution for millennial pros seeking pristine sound quality, lightning-fast performance, and scalable studio setups. ## Description Product 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. Review: Great audio interface with a few unusual quirks - 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. Review: Amazing Interface with Amazing Value! - Amazing interface. Preamps are and converters are so CLEAN!!!! Headphone amp has plenty gain. Presonus really did it with the new quantum interfaces. They easily expandable thru adat optical ports. The software is great and fairly self explanitory. The perpetual license for Studio One is a huge plus. Just wish they did a better job of explaining loopback setup in documentation. The documentation and explaination of features is the only comolaint I have, but if you just go thru the settings yourself thru trial and error, you can sort it all out. Took about 20 min to figure it out on my own. If they just fix the documentation for Universal Control, it would be perfect. ## 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 ¼” TRS Left and Right main outputs and 8 ¼” TRS line outputs, DC-coupled. - 2 ¼” headphone outputs with dedicated volume. - Dual ADAT Optical, S/PDIF, MIDI, and BNC word clock I/O ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B0835ZYRNM | | Best Sellers Rank | #3,081 in Musical Instruments ( See Top 100 in Musical Instruments ) #32 in Computer Recording Audio Interfaces | | Compatible Devices | Headphone, Instrument, MIDI Hardware, Microphone, Personal Computer, Smartphone, Studio Monitors, Tablet | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (410) | | Date First Available | January 2, 2020 | | Hardware Interface | Thunderbolt | | Item Weight | 5 pounds | | Item model number | QUANTUM 2626 | | Operating System | Windows, macOS | | Product Dimensions | 7.5 x 19 x 1.75 inches | | Size | 2626 | | Supported Software | Compatible with Studio One Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Reaper, and many more. | | Voltage | 120 Volts | ## Product Details - **Brand:** PreSonus - **Connectivity Technology:** Thunderbolt - **Number of Channels:** 26 ## Images ![Quantum 2626 with Studio One Pro Software - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51zUl3L6DSL.jpg) ## Questions & Answers **Q: Does this come with a cable?** A: It includes a power cable but you will need to purchase an Apple Certified Thunderbolt Cable if using with a MAC. **Q: Is this compatible with fl studio? also how is the latency?** A: It will work with any DAW. Make sure computer and OS meets the card’s requirements. There’s no perceivable latency. There’s also a Tascam Celesonics card that’s outstanding it’s USB 3.0. **Q: I am hoping to use the quantum 2626 to produce music using ableton as the daw. hopefully the low latency will help with overdubbing. sound right?** A: You will not be disappointed. I use Sonar. Latency is not an issue when running numerous virtual instruments. **Q: Can i use this as my overall "soundcard" in w10 and not just thru my daw? i.e youtube, itunes, etc? currently using a firestudio mobile for this.** A: I am a Mac guy so I’m not sure how old Windows 10 is but I imagine you could use it as your default “sound card”. I use it as mine on my iMac. Of course be sure to power up the unit before booting your computer. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great audio interface with a few unusual quirks *by S***N on January 10, 2023* 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. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing Interface with Amazing Value! *by A***H on November 5, 2025* Amazing interface. Preamps are and converters are so CLEAN!!!! Headphone amp has plenty gain. Presonus really did it with the new quantum interfaces. They easily expandable thru adat optical ports. The software is great and fairly self explanitory. The perpetual license for Studio One is a huge plus. Just wish they did a better job of explaining loopback setup in documentation. The documentation and explaination of features is the only comolaint I have, but if you just go thru the settings yourself thru trial and error, you can sort it all out. Took about 20 min to figure it out on my own. If they just fix the documentation for Universal Control, it would be perfect. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bloatware free, high quality mic amp *by T***Y on July 16, 2025* Best standalone mic adc/amp I have used; coming with a copy of Studio One 7 was also a nice touch. Huge plus: there is minimal bloatware. You will probably want to install the official drivers so that you don't have dozens of input devices, but it isn't absolutely necessary and the software to control this is both unobtrusive and minimal. For the amp itself, the automatic gain isn't as great as others have made it out to be from my personal use, but the total gain available and audio quality is better than any other mic adc/amp I have used. It doesn't have as many available effects OOTB, like an analog compressor, but that can be done inline or via effects. I am not really much of a musician (hobbyist at best), so I can't speak too much for Studio One 7, but it works with my generic midi keyboard and has a sufficient number of instruments available. My plan was to get a low noise, higher gain mic amp that had minimal intrusive software bloat and this delivers. ## Frequently Bought Together - PreSonus Quantum 2626 26x26 Thunderbolt 3 Audio Interface M1 Chip Compatible - Belkin Thunderbolt 3 Cable, F2CD084 - 2.62 ft Thunderbolt 3 Data Transfer Cable for MacBook Pro - First End: 1 x USB Type C Male Thunderbolt 3 - Second End: 1 x USB Type C Male Thunderbolt 3 - 5 GB/s - OWC 28-Inch Thunderbolt 4 and USB-C Cable with 40 GBPS Data Transfer, 240W Power Charging and 8K Video Capability (Black) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/180965392-quantum-2626-with-studio-one-pro-software](https://www.desertcart.be/products/180965392-quantum-2626-with-studio-one-pro-software) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-04-28*