Propellerhead's first piece of audio hardware, the Balance audio interface, has won a prestigious iF Product Design Gold Award 2012. Balance is one of 62 products to receive the award - out of around 8000 entries. Established in 1953, the iF product design award is today among the most important awards for innovative product design.

"Balance is a 2-in/2-out audio interface for recording and playback. It’s the first hardware product ever from the top-tier music software company – Propellerhead. By this, an iconic software brand is transferred into the physical world and establishes design assets for future hardware products. Interaction is facing the user on the topside instead of the common short side. With color-coded inputs for all the gear, instruments are always connected and ready to record. An equally large knob for speakers and headphones acknowledges that music makers of today are as likely to create at a workstation as on their laptop with headphones on."

• http://exhibition.ifdesign.de/entrydetails_en.html?beitrag_id=85020
• www.propellerheads.se/balance
• www.facebook.com/propellerheaduk