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It's a cheap soundcard with poorly written drivers most likely. Check that you're using the latest drivers for the soundcard first, if that doesn't work then maybe the asio4all driver would be something to try. Ultimately you're going to want to save for a dedicated soundcard with proper ASIO drive...

I don’t wanna be "that guy", but you could buy a Mac! I can turn my Fireface on and off happily and it just makes lives audio engine turn off. But I still reckon just Alt-F4, "yes", unplug/plug device, and double-click the Live icon is a lot easier solution than buying a new com...

All the snarky comments are entirely unnecessary. this is a problem on ableton 9, 10, and 11, and it exists on mac and windows both. It's AWFUL. Half the time when unplug and replug devices, Ableton actually loses its reference pointers to which menu entries point to which sound devices, and will pl...