VE-Pro and DP - How to monitor?

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I have a large-ish template using VE-Pro, and I have each instrument coming back into DP on it's own audio track. I can compose, edit MIDI, and then record the whole template in one pass.

My problem now is, that if I change levels on the audio tracks, this changes the perceived level of the MIDI track.

I'd like to monitor the VE-Pro returns (from the slave machine) independently of the audio track- how do you handle returns like this? Do you use an aux track with some clever assigns? Do you send signal out of a bus to the 2-bus?

What's the best way to do this?

Thanks,
Robert

DP 7.23 SnowLeopard MacPro 8 core 16GB
VE-Pro on a slave i7 4 core running W7-64bit