Live's Looper Volume vs. Input and Doubling

["Boise Creative & Improvised Music Festival" <krispen.hartung@gmail.com>]

Hoping someone can help me resolve this...

First, I've used Live's  looper in two ways. I have put it in an audio 
track, and then for any live instrument track I want looped, I routed the 
output of that track to the Looper track. Works great. I've also put the 
looper in one of the Return tracks, and then set the output of my live 
instrument tracks to Sends Only. Also works fine.

However, this is the issue. I want to be able to loop my live music, and 
then lower or increase the volume of the loop output. The only way I can do 
this, since the Looper doesn't have a volume parameter, is to assign my a CC 
to the track volume that the looper is in. However, when I lower the volume, 
it also lowers the volume of my live instrument, that is being fed into the 
looper track. The only way I could think of resolving this is that when I 
run the Looper in a Return track, in the instrument track, I set the output 
to Master. But then, I am doubling my inputs to the Master. I am sending the 
output of my live instrument to both the Master and the Send track.

Anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this?

Kris