...you can internally route via totalmix...e.g. in kontakt you could use out 3-4 and in totalmix you could route out 3-4 directly to in 3-4 and use that as an input in your daw...to do that you have to click strg or alt something like that (i can't remember right now, sorry, but just search the totalmix manual) and then in totalmix the outputchannels you want to route to their input...easy...works like a charm...

...ok...i found out it should be "strg" + the output channel to route it inernally to the input...so:

- e.g. you have your daw's out on let's say 1-2
- in kontakt standalone choose e.g. 3-4 as the output channels
- when you play something with kontakt you should see the totalmix meters out 3-4 (3rd row) moving
- click "strg" + out 3 and then "strg" + out 4 (on the label): the colour of "out 3" resp. "out 4" should then turn red
- when you play with kontakt you now should see the meters of out 3+4 and input 3-4 moving
- in your daw select input 3-4 as the input channel
- happy like a house without a roof

Thanks for the trouble.

Bummed that the 9652 doesn't allow this, but...what can one do? 

There was a comment about adat cable loopback, but, one cannot, for that will "disconnect" the ada8000 from the 9652, as there is only one in/out, or am i missing something?

You could also loopback via the Spdif in/out

Regards
Yannick

This might actually be the way to go!  :-)