Integrate a hardware groovebox or drum machine into your Ableton Live rig

Ableton Live is a fantastic self-contained performance and production tool, and it can meet all of our music needs… most of the time. However, Live builds on this intrinsic fantasticness when it’s located at the centre of a hybrid rig that includes hardware synths, drum machines, grooveboxes, and maybe even multiple computers and iOS devices; then you’re really getting at what Live does best.

There are many live acts that rely on Live for this kind of routing and control; it’s unquestionably the best thing around for these jobs. Anyhow, it’s the grooveboxes that we’re interested in