Help - home set up on Imac using logic 8 using Alesis multimix 8 usb mixer

Hi all
Can anyone give advice as to how to i can use my multimix with logic pro on my imac. What im trying to do is get logic to use the inputs from the mixer and then use both the internal speakers as well as sending the signal back to the mixer so as i can use the phones to monitor everything.
Can anyone help please as im tearing my hair out now
PS - i am using logic 8 studio
Thanks all

My system is different, but I'm doing basically the same thing you want to do, with one minor difference.
I have a Yamaha 01V96 with three internal ADAT I/O banks feeding a Presonus Firestudio Lightpipe.
The 01V96 does all of my input/output a/d-d/a conversions. The system looks like this:
01V96-->Presonus Lightpipe-->(Firewire out) into the Mac Pro.
All of my audio goes through the 01V96. The Mac's internal audio is not used. The 01V96 outputs feed a pair of Alesis Prolinear 720DSP speakers.
I think you will either have to attach your speakers to the mixers outputs and not use the internal audio, or you'll have to go into your audio/midi setup and switch from one to the other as the need arrises. I don't think you'll be able to have both of them active at the same time.

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