Behringer UMC1820 vs Motu Ultralite mk5

The USB on this is stereo, but it has the 8 Direct Outputs for connecting to an audio interface, such as the Behringer U-Phoria UMC1820. This is about $175 used.

First, instead of a USB C to USB A cable, I got an empty bag. Either 1) this was a return that was sold to me as new or 2) MOTU’s quality control is really bad if they send empty bags instead of cables. There was also a handwritten serial number on the instruction card, and the box was mangled. The former seems weird, the latter not so much since I often get mangled boxes from Amazon

Scarlett series (2nd gen) devices in the past but have switched to Behringer and couldn't be happier. Currently using a UMC404HD in my live rig and a UMC1820 expanded with an ADA8200 in the studio. Build quality is on par with the Scarletts and signal to noise ratio is actually better. Sure, there are interfaces with better pre-amps but for the money a UMC1820 will give you a lot of bang for the bucks

But some of the biggest differences are under the hood. Motu is using new updated ESS DACs as well as an ESS driven headphone output. And we've got gr...

Tracktion was billed as "included" software, but it wasn't actually in the box with it, and when I registered the product with Behringer to get my "free" download code, I have yet to get any reply from them. There's a free version of Tracktion available and that's probably what they're talking about. Behringer pulled this crap before by including the freeware Audacity with interfaces and billing it as some great deal of included software (and Audacity sucks, BTW). Tried messing with Tracktion a bit, but really not a fan of the workflow

I mean, they can really improve the functionality of your device. And especially if your device gets a little bit buggy sometimes, when you read throu...