So I had a test drive on my friend s xone96. Using cue 1 out as a 3rd fx send works as expected. Great!
I kept return D cue d permanently to prevent a feedback loop happening when all channels get un-cue d. Sacrificing return D channel for that would work in my setup.
But i ran into another inconvenience: when one or more channels are cue d - which is always the case in this scenario - the master volume meters switch to showing the cue signal instead of the master. So i d never see my mix s output volume metering.
I guess i could learn to work that, but it s not ideal.
I looked hard for a way around this but couldn t find it. Anyone see something i didn t? Using cue 2 for this has the limitation of only being able to send 1 channel at a time.
Besides this the mixer feels and sounds awesome. So much more inspiring than the Mackie i m using now.