Ok, so I have had an I-Live for 2 years now and for the first time in that time I have actually run into a limitation that I didn’t expect.

I was mixing monitors, there were 8 stereo in ear sends.
IDR64 with 144 surface out front and IDR32 with T80 surface on monitors connected via ACE.

So the in ear mixes were all pretty much the same except each person just needed a little more of themselves in their mix.

So I thought, why don’t I just create 3 seperate mixes for drums, band and vocals and then route these to each in ear mix and add a bit more of each persons vocal on top.

Should be easy I thought.
First off i started with Auxes sub mixes and in ear mixes but then I discovered you can’t mix the output of one aux to another.

So then I thought I’d use groups for the sub mix, but that didn’t work either as groups are only on or off.

In the end I had to go back to Auxes, but because I was already using all 16 outputs on the IDR32, I had to route the sub mixes over ACE to the IDR64, come out of physical outputs on that and then bring them back into the IDR32 as analog inputs.

So here is my request…
It would be really handy to be able to route the output of an aux (or actually any mix for that matter) to a channel input without having to go out and come back in as analog.

Then you could mix that channel into each aux send to taste.

As it was I gave each person a PL10 remote and put the submixes on three knobs and each persons vocal on the 4th so they could mix their own monitors. That way I just concentrated on the submixes.
This worked so well I’d like to use it more often without the added annoyance of analog to digital conversions.