So, how do you connect your audio interface to your computer? Here, we’ll take you through the process from start to finish – for both Windows PCs and Mac laptops.

From the pokiest of bedrooms to the most expensive of cutting-edge recording studios, audio interfaces are pulling serious weight – and now you’ve gotten one to carry the load of your own music-making ...

If you’re rolling with a Radeon HD 4600- or 4800-series GPU, you can connect a DVI-to-HDMI adapter to your card and send digital video and 7.1-channels of uncompressed digital audio to your A/V ...

Both products use Dolby Digital Live to encode any audio signal to 5.1-channel Dolby Digital in real time. The audio is then output through a S/PDIF interface to your A/V receiver.

(Image credit: Future/James Grimshaw) Many of you will be in possession of a USB MIDI keyboard, which uses a USB cable to transmit data. These kinds of keyboards are not connected to audio interfaces, ...

4. Plug your keyboard in If your needs are simple, this is where your journey ends. Take a 5-pin DIN cable and connect your MIDI keyboard’s MIDI Out to the MIDI In on your interface.

(Credit: Will Greenwald) Connect Your Xbox Controller to PC With a Wire This is simple, but you do need a physical cable connecting the controller to your PC. Here's how you do it. Plug one end of ...

There are two ways you can connect your PS5 controller to a PC, one of which is a bit more involved than the other. If you're strapped for time and don't mind the distance constraint, the fastest ...