Cheap Firewire / Thunderbolt audio interface

Hello Mac people,
I have a 13" MacBook Pro, and the Music department need it to be able to have a way to input music while listing to headphones at the same time. I am aware that there is a input/output jack available, but from my understandings it isn't possible to use it as both at the same time (using a splitter cable). I need a cheap 'no latency' solution (preferably not USB) to this.
The input devices would be mostly Keyboards.
Thanks,
Adam

Almost all midi keyboards are USB, and there's no problem with latency since midi signals are very low bandwidth. Plus you don't have a problem with Apple's current transition from Firewire to Thunderbolt.

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