Multiple Heaphone Mixes, Latency, FW cards (esp Firepods)

I often track bass, drums, and keys simultaneously for hip-hop and jazz recordings. The firepods "latency free monitoring" is ONLY for outputs 1-2, which presents a problem for multiple headphone mixes.
One solution is to use busses within logic, re-routed to different outputs on the firepod, then to different headphone amps, but then you have latency, which is no good for jazz... I need some sort of solution that provides at least 3 seperate latency free monitor mixes. (preferably not a new interface such as the mackie onyx, although that would work...) To keep throwing out unnacceptable solutions I've already thought of, I could run everything into our Yamaha MG32/14fx, use it for the monitor mixes, then use the inserts to send out to the pods. This skips the superior Presonus pre-amps in favor of the yamahas, which i'm sure aren't as good.
Finally, I've thought of using some sort of XLR splitter or patch panel splitter to feed a seperate mix to the firepods and board from the start. Will this noticeably degrade signal quality though? This seems like a problem that many people must encounter while trying to push a studio to the next level. Thanks in advance for the great advice i'm sure to get!

Mult-ing your mic inputs shouldn't make any noticeable difference to the sound. I have a patchbay, to which I soldered multiple outs, going to a mixer for headphone mixes. Make sure that you make parallel connections, as opposed to series.
Dave

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