Running Mainstage along side Mackie desk into firepod for 5 piece live band

HI every one,
I have been studying the Macprovideos.com on mainstage and I'm half way through. My query is what would be the best way to set up my gear to utilise mainstage with my current pa and MacBook Pro 2.4 GHZ Intel Core i5 4GB Memory for my live covers band. I'm a mac fan and I've recently upgraded to logic studio and hoping to utilise mainstage for live performances. We run our own sound as many small bands do, but because I'm the gear tech/geek in the band I'm always striving to improve our sound for the listener & clients.
Band (playing R&b old and new skool) Top 40 music
Myself on Guitars, vocs, Keys (analog gear hope to use mainstage) + Pa
1x Bass player, vocs
1x Live Drums, Vocs
1x Keys
1x front Male singer
My goal Is to run run mainstage along side my mackie 1604 VLZ Pro mixer into Mackie active srm 450,s 1x mackie 15" Sub. I have a Pesonus Firewire Firepod. 8 xlr ins, 8 outs.
I also would like to use Mainstage for its guitars sending a Bus feed from mainstage out to my ZT Lunchbox guitar Amp onstage. Also I would like to Have access to some Keys, Rhodes, organ clav for second keys to help out our keyboardist especially with some of the hiphop music where there isnt any guitars, so I will run a midi keyboard via usb
Am I asking to much of my MBP & Mainstage to run the whole band into my firepod?
what would be the best way to run my band with this set up? IF it is going to be to CPU Taxing then is there a way for me to run everything through the mackie and using mainstage for effects processing utlising the reverbs, compressors, limitors etc.
I have all the gear at my place and im gonna do a dummy run, so any suggestions that can help would be greatly appreaciative as there are some very knowlegeable people on these forums.

Well, you got some good equipment. Now, how best to use it? I would play to the strengths of each piece, and avoid the weaknesses.
Mackie PA - great for vocal pre's and routing, zero latency, real faders and stuff
MainStage - great for digital effects and virtual instruments, but you always have some latency
Firepod - lotsa pre's and flexible routing
Too bad you don't have a MOTU Ultralite, which has hardware compression, reverb limiting, and eq on all its ins and outs, so that saves some CPU power. But you don't, so...
I personally don't run my vocals through MainStage, other than running a signal in to do delay/echo (at 100% wet). I don't like ANY latency on vocals. So you could try that method, with your real-time dry signal through the PA, a vocal send bus to MainStage for delay (or even reverb, 100% wet). That saves some CPU.
Bass player, why not 100% through amps/PA? Hard to beat.
Keyboards, sure do 'em virtual in MainStage. Lotsa great options. Unless of course, you have real cool keyboards that sound good.
Guitars, if the latency doesn't bother you, use MainStage for amp sims and stompboxes if the sound suits you. Run it to your Lunchbox if you wanna. You'll need midi-based foot controller, though.
You could run outs from MainStage/Firepod into your Mackie if you wanted to mix all from one spot, which would be good, I think.
So, you would sorta end up with Mackie as your main vocal thing, and your mixer and PA; MainStage as an effect processor and for virtual instruments. and FirePod as a in/out interface between the two.
My 10 cents.

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