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Beef up your Ableton Live audio ins and outs

Sooner or later, we all have a moment when something changes unexpectedly in our studio or live setup; maybe we borrow a drum machine or synth from a friend, or somebody comes over for a jam, and suddenly the well-organised rig doesn’t quite have enough audio inputs or outputs to go round. In the longer term, you can plan to buy another soundcard, or you can use external audio inputs on your hardware instruments, if they have any, and bodge something together that way. Either way, right there on the spot, you need something to make it work, and

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