Ok this is old school for cabinet makers but it works for this application quite well!
Take a look at this illustration, it's from pocket door hardware for cabinets...
quite simply what this is is a moving knot, two cables pull against each other to effectively prevent one cable from moving without the other cable moving. I was unhappy with the play I had on one side of my machine caused by my placing the Y screw to the side of the machine, I did this because I wanted open clearance in the bottom of the machine in case I needed to place a large object under the gantry