Hi guys, i wonder if anyone would be kind enough to walk me through or point me to instructions for what i think should be a simple use of the AK but which for some reason I am unable to do.
I am using a MBP and Ableton, and a UCX fireface soundcard. I want to send a track of audio from Ableton to the AK, process it with the AK effects, then send this processed signal back to another track in Live. I want to keep using my UCX soundcard. I believe this should all be possible but cannot find any manual info, any vids or anything else on how to do it. Any help most gratefully received!! Cheers 
You can do that using Totalmix FX.
Hey thanks for the reply. Sorry, but do you mean I can use the Totalmix effects instead of the AK ones or do you mean something else? I really want to use the AK effects. Cheers!
No I mean you can use Totalmix FX to route your audio signal from Ableton to the AK and then back to Ableton, but you need 4 cables.
For example: you set your track to the 15-16 outputs in Ableton (they should be seen as adat 1-2 in your software playback window in Totalmix).
In Totalmix you send the adat 1-2 signal to hardware out 3-4 so you can feed the AK inputs, then you send back the wet signal from the AK outputs to the 1-2 hardware inputs.
In Ableton you select inputs 1-2 and you have your track back in your daw.
I don’t know if it’s possible via usb only, I will check tomorrow.
oh yeah i see what you mean, thanks. And yes, I was really hoping to be able to do this via OB/USB so it would be good to know if you discover anything. I read somewhere about someone setting up an aggregate soundcard in the Midi utility of their MBP in order to use both the AK and the UCX as a soundcard and apparently this worked for them…but i haven’t been able to get it to work like this either 