MINIFUSE 4: Arturia's Swiss army knife of low-cost audio interfaces!

[@furiobisotti8150]

I bought it last week, I tested it today. It makes everything that I need. Two stereo outputs when I play live (one to mixer, one to my monitors). Two usb for my midi controllers, one midi for my pedalboard. It works perfectly.

[@jefgibbons]

Good to hear, thanks!

[@BeauTylerMakesMusic]

Don’t make me want this. Don’t make me want this. Don’t make me want this. Dammit Jef!

[@jefgibbons]

Ha! It’s got a lot of uses!!

[@heartshinemusic]

Just watching this video now. I love the extra USB ports. My Apogee Duet (version 2) has an extra USB port as well, which is super handy to connect a midi keyboard. I don't get why other interfaces don't do this. Even the new Duet version (3) doesn't have this extra USB port anymore. I may pick up an Arturia interface this year for the little vocal booth studio I plan to build.

[@Elsagitario]

Nice video and thanks for trying out all the possible uses for the USB. That gets overlooked sometimes. This Minifuse sure might be my audio interface for the backpack. I am still very satisfied with the Zoom TAC-2R on thunderbolt which shall be used at least till my Mac gets deprecated.

[@TerenceKearns]

Very nice. I'm impressed to see that they support legacy midi ports. Thats so very useful. Decent quality midi to USB adapters can be expensive. The cheap ones drop loads of midi events to the floor

[@wojciechstecyszyn6040]

Hi. thank you for the video. I have one question: have you tried to plug electric guitar or bass to 3 or 4 inputs on the back? Can these inputs be use to record guitar or bass and (I guess using the trim knob in control centre) achieve some usable input gain level for these passive instruments? This is very important info to me. Thanks in advance.

[@ChristFan868]

Excellent review Jef.

[@jefgibbons]

Thanks!

[@aloharay]

Actually just bought one of these for use with my Maschine+ and my iPad pro. 8:30 Not all USB C cables are created equal... some will power and transport data, some will not do both. Try different cables to see if you can get your IOS devices to work correctly.

[@jefgibbons]

How are you digging it?

[@aloharay]

@@jefgibbons love the extra connectivity the hub feature adds, and it makes sense TY hat adding the power to interface lets devices connected work fully than just using bus power. Thank you for demonstrating this.

[@Yosser70]

If you have it plugged into the wall, will it charge the ipad as well as do data over usb c?

[@jessechristman1471]

@aloharay can you answer Yosser70’s question? i’m curious about this as well

[@annebokma4637]

Makes me wonder how the 1 and 2 handle USB since they both only have bus power. No matter how many ins and outs you need. If you need the USB to power more devices, you need this one?

[@zekenzy6486]

Great Video. Could this MINIFUSE 4 alone can power high impedance studio headphone like 80 ohm , 250 ohm ? and it had 2 headphone plug in, Could it power drive 2 studio headphone 80 ohm and 250 ohm at the same time. Thank you for sharing

[@JeremyTobacco]

Can someone answer Zeke's question please? hahah

[@georgefenning4844]

is that an ipad pro? - will it work with 10th generation ipads? or will it fail like the iphone? thanks

[@tonydrake821]

When plugged in, does it subsequently power the ipad?

[@SpeldosaMusik]

I would like to know this as well.

[@astrozonemusic]

Can I use 4 studio monitor together

[@vncsnts_]

how many outputs options does show up when used with logic pro? im planning to buy this as i need separate outputs for IEM mix and another for FOH mix I bought scarlett solo but turns out only 1 stereo output is possible to be routed so looking for alternatives at the moment

[@space1oddity]

I love the smile at 7:07 lol

[@pablosmith5473]

Just for a DAW/VST use only, meaning no recording in or mic or anything, just DAW composition & studio production with very high quality monitors, would you consider this audio interface a good choice in term of output quality?

[@jefgibbons]

In that case just go for something like the minifuse 1, cheaper but still gives you the option of one input if it comes up!

[@pablosmith5473]

@@jefgibbons Yep good call! Exactly what I'm looking for, the Minifuse 1 for minimal DAW only studio production looks like a fantastic option. Thank you!

[@macmusica]

Can it use Standalone APP and send 3&4 Out Pre-FX to hear Stereo Delay & Reverb without recordibg FX but still send out Gate, Compressor, De-Esser, EQ to monotor and track without latency? Line6 Toneport/Studio UX2 can do this. It saves needing loopback from DAW for monitoring FX thus is efficient. Just a handy method but especially when used for Guitar & Bass... can it do this or onky via DAW which would be terrible latency for Instruments.

[@jefgibbons]

I’d head to the forums for that question!

[@HonorV2ultimate1tb]

where do i connect to a Arturia Keylab 88?.... i am real beginner

[@maikvanrossum]

Did you experience any dropouts when using it with the M+? Can the MiniFuse be set to be the audio sync slave or does it switch when a hooked up device wants to be the master?

[@jefgibbons]

No dropouts, but I barely did anything on it yet… do you mean sync with the computer or the M+?

[@maikvanrossum]

@@jefgibbons when connected to the M+. I’m using an iConnectivity AUDIO4C and it works properly as long as I set it to let (what’s connected to) the USB port to be the audio sync master. When I do not configure that explicitly, the M+ will loose connection once in a while. Most users of different external interfaces experience this dropout after 1 to 10 minutes. After that you have to reselect the external interface from the audio settings in the M+. It looks like that configuring the external device as a slave solves the problem. At least, for me it does.

[@jefgibbons]

@@maikvanrossum Good tip Maik, I'll keep you posted if I experience it!

[@nabilgarbi6645]

Merci Jef 🙏

[@Weak_Hand]

I have Minifuse 1, which I've change from Scarlett solo just because of an extra usb hub. In general I'm happy although after 3 months my volume (monitor) knob started making hissing (white) noise when turned up and down, which is really annoying, especially when my speakers are on loud. My previous audio (Scarlett) started making volume knob noises after year or so.

[@aloharay]

Had that happen on a Tascam unit I had some years ago. I forget exactly what I used but it was some sort of pressurized spray that I used to clean out the volume potentiometer and that made it less noisy when I turned the volume up or down.

[@jefgibbons]

Weird! Definitely should contact tech support on that!

[@arrrashi2963]

Hey quick question , was wondering if this would work LINE 6 POD GO output --> arturia minifuse input then arturia minifuse --> studio monitors i know the pod go can serve as an audio interface it self but i still wanna daily drive a dedicated audio interface for my mic and headphones , so if i wanna record or play i could just plug the POD GO to the MINIFUSE

[@macmusica]

Line6 Studio UX2 is very over looked for its use professionally with 4 Outputs, 2 are Pre-FX sends plus dedicated ASIO APP GearBox.

[@alucard0712]

Even on youtube Focusrite sounds better (more higher frequencies for sure)

[@ramojones9694]

cool

[@sidneythirston9044]

Umm🤔 Jeff is that a technics sl-bd1 turntable I see next to your push

[@jefgibbons]

No, I should get one! It's an old cheap one from my Aunt ;) Works really well though!

[@sidneythirston9044]

@@jefgibbons And thank you for the video I have a scarlett 18/8 and I noticed I have to crank it unlike my arturia audiofuse so thank you for letting me know about that kind sir your info is greatly appreciated Jack 👈🏾

[@Iredidv]

Is there a difference in latency with maschine plus internal vs minifuse? In setting audio how much in/Calc/out? Always curious how it performs with a mid level rme too. Myself I got an (don’t laugh) behringer 18 20 and an Ada 8200 for expansion, with the idea to connect it to a mixer with direct outs (soundcraft fx16II) and have the same soundcard setup on the other pc side, or get a Tascam 24 wich would be much simpler (ps in the latest reason update you have lots more ons and outs, so maybe a faderfox with 12 channels the one with sliders and the one with knobs could do this too. All I want is to track everything on its own track while jamming.

[@Whatsamattau2]

Where do you plug in monitors?

[@SandNigah]

Wow that microlab sounded cheap when it hit the table