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...send track 1 to a stereo output on my firewire audiophile, and track 2 sent to another set of stereo outputs. This way I can use the crossfader on the mixer at the club

agreed that the crossfader in Live is next to worthless (i just use channel faders) but by doing it this way you're limiting yourself to just 2 tracks, or "decks" - no? seems like that would miss out on a lot of the reason to use Live in the first place

Not really - i cue up loops or midi instuments on whichever channel isnt playing out to the club, then when im ready, either set that channel to output to the club, or crossfade over to it on the club mixer. Only pain is its handy to keep the in/out section on the screen just to confirm what outputs go to where. Eats up screen space on a laptop. Even tho i name the tracks i'd still rather avoid the chance of crossfading into ....... silence

...and you cant put any sort of plugin on the master, because only one side is actually outputting to the master...

so it is a compromise, definitely - but i think the ability to use the club's mixer (vestax pcv 275, which i really like) is worth it. I also find that people respond a little better if i come up from the screen to mix. At the mo, ppl dont *quite* get mixing from PC - certainly in one place where i play, where I was asked for a track, didnt have it, and they said if I could "just download it off there" pointing at my laptop.

Anyways, i know that was a little off-topic sorry.

no problem, you should do what's most comfortable for you. but i think you were missing what i said a little bit. regardless of how you're doing it, you're setting this up such that you're only going to ever have a max 2 sources playing at once. that's where i think you're missing out on most of what Live has to offer.