Professional Audio

From Music Production to Streaming, the Standard for Today’s Creators - Yamaha Audio Interfaces UR-MK3 and URX-C

Hamamatsu, Japan – Yamaha announced that on October 9, 2025, it will rebrand the long-established UR series—previously offered under the Steinberg brand— under the Yamaha name and launch the “UR-MK3” series (UR12MK3, UR22MK3) and “URX-C” series (URX22C, URX44C). The UR-MK3 and URX-C inherit the proven features and reliability of the UR line, now delivered under the Yamaha brand to provide creators with trusted solutions for both music production and streaming.

Yamaha and Steinberg Announce Hardware Brand Transition

Hamamatsu, Japan ― Yamaha and Steinberg today announced that, as part of a group-wide restructuring of product development systems, Yamaha has taken over Steinberg’s hardware business. Steinberg hardware products are being rebranded as Yamaha, while Steinberg will focus exclusively on software development and sales moving forward. The aim is to provide users with a refined, integrated product experience that brings software and hardware under one roof.

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A Prince Amongst Engineers: Scottie Baldwin Shares his Mixing Philosophy

Renowned as the longstanding Front of House engineer for Prince, Lady Gaga and, more recently, Singaporean superstar JJ Lin, Scottie Baldwin has a refreshing philosophy about audio mixing and the modern live engineer’s role. A longtime user of Yamaha digital mixers, when JJ Lin played a UK arena show this year, Scottie took time out to talk about his approach.