Mixer into Jamkazam

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Is there a better way to use my gear?  My "audio interface" is essentially a mixer.  Roland HS-5 Session Mixer intended to function as a 5-user headphone jam system.  But it gets quite good local/gear latency ( about 5ms) using it's ASIO driver over USB to Jamkazam.
I monitor from the main output of the HS-5 but I've now noticed that the personal mix in JK has no effect for my inputs.  I can mix what I'm hearing of my guitar and vocal on the HS-5, and I can affect levels of the other musicians using the personal mix in JK.
Using one of the five individual monitoring jacks on the HS-5 wouldn't give that flexibility because the guitar and vocal come in on separate inputs to the HS-5.

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Hi,
I am running through a mixer, a MACKIE ProFX12v3. What you experience is true for quite a few mixers or "abused audio gear" like guitar-pedals, combo-amps with USB etc. Those are designed to record a track, process it offline on a PC , and playback at some time.
For JKZ you'll need 
- a bidirectional (concurrent) audio-if (in fact, that should be true for yours)
- the option to turn off the so called "local monitor". 
But the latter is what your Roland is actually designed to, being a local monitor.

On my console there is a tuning knob to select the output to be either "local inputs", or the USB1/2 signal, or a mix. I need to turn that fully into the "USB" position to avoid local monitoring. Other consoles have a switch that does the same, e.g. newer YAMAHA.

Try two things (I checked the manual and didn't find a hint..)
- play a song (mp3, youtube or whatever) from your PC into the audio-interface. You'll need to configure the driver, or Windows audio settings, potentially
- While the song is playing, play your instrument into the HS-5 and set the mix (personal) so that you can ONLY hear the playback, but not your instrument. Make sure your insturment is however active on the input, and levels are up.

If you can'T reach that, it means you will hear your instrument with zero latency from your HS-5, and never be in sync (as far as that is possible) with other players in the session.

Thanks for that.   I forgot to mention that we always play backing tracks, usually just drums, via jamkazam, and the volume slider for those does affect what I hear monitoring the main output of my HS-5.   I haven't had any significant latency issues when jamming with my buddies.
Now I'm beginning to wonder if the personal mix sliders seemed to not do anything because I was the only one in the private session during testing.
If I thought it would improve things I'd probably sell the HS-5 and get a six channel Mackie.

Mackie ProFX6v3 6-channel Mixer with USB and Effects