Well made with a metal casing, plenty of routing options for its small footprint, low noise, bus powered and so far pretty solid low latency ASIO drivers (made by Steinberg) tested in Ableton 9.6 on an Intel i7, Windows 7 laptop. Plenty of gain to power headphone and monitor outs. Desk can be used when laptop/computer is off if one of your USB ports has an 'always on' port. This is cool if you want to utilise the mixer for other jobs that don't require the computer. Decent all round - well done Yamaha, perfect for tiny mobile studio.