I have a question about setting up the Motu M4 on Ableton Live.

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TJ_Juckson
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I have a question about setting up the Motu M4 on Ableton Live.

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I have my keyboard plugged into 1-2 inputs. I can hear my keyboard with headphones plugged into the M4's headphone jack, but that's not what I care about. I want use the ASIO driver type with my M Series driver. And I want to be able to use the 1-2 inputs with my keyboard, and hear my keyboard while also hearing my computer audio. Ableton Live is picking up my key strokes; the light in the top right corner flashes and notes are recorded when I record to a track. But playback doesn't allow me to hear anything. Line Out 1 and 2 on the back of the interface are connected to my computer I/O shield (the blue jack). But I've seen with a Google search that this might not be a good idea. So I need to loop back audio from the computer to the M4. There's supposed to be a Loopback 1-2 channel listed in Output Config, but it's not showing up. So I have Mono 1 and 2 turned on in the Output Config section in Ableton's preferences. And I'm listening with wireless headphones and have those selected in the Windows sound settings for output, for now.

But if I can find Loopback 1-2 in Output Config, then I would have to turn 1-2 outputs for the M4 on in the Windows settings, instead of using my headphones, I guess...but the problem is that if Motu is going to be the Windows output, and not my wireless headphones, then I would have to directly connect wired headphones to the Motu.

I can't find a good video on YouTube that discusses using computer audio while listening to an instrument routed to the M4 inputs simultaneously.
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