Not entirely true... If you are doing music just for the money then its not considered music. Giving into the mainstream media and doing what they want is destroying the idea of artistic expression because you need paper. Do what you have to to get there but never give up your expression through...
Not sure if you just want the device to activate the program or to actually use, but I would say any of these to get the program to work:
Fast Track USB
M-Audio Firewire Solo Audio Interface
MobilePre USB
Well for PT Mpowered you need anyone of the following for it to work:
FireWire 1814
Ozonic
Delta 1010LT
M-Audio Ozone
FireWire 410
Audiophile 2496
Delta 66
MobilePre USB
FireWire Solo
Audiophile 192
Delta 44
Fast Track USB
FireWire Audiophile
Delta...
I would say leave it dry and mix it in a real DAW like live or pro tools. If you dont have that there are a couple of tutorials I did recently.
https://www.illmuzik.com/articles/category.php?category=Tutorials