Audio on Separate Tracks via Firewire

I have a feeling this is a stupid question, but I'd hate to go without asking, so... I'm using a Behringer Eurorack UB1202 with a Behringer F-Control firewire interface to record a podcast with 3 (sometimes 4) microphones. Is there a way I could use that setup to split the audio onto 3 (or four) separate tracks? I'm assuming the answer is "no," since it ultimately dumps into one firewire input and therefore (I guess) one signal. I imagine I might be able to split off left and right channels, yes? But with 3 mics, that would put one on one track and two on another? (I'm using an iBook, by the way, so I've only got one firewire port to work with...)
Quicksilver G4 | G3 iBook Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Hi DaddyPaycheck. I'm fairly new to digital audio, so I'm stumbling around.
On a couple of occasions I tried setting the drum track to MIDI channel 10 in Logic at someone's suggestion. That didn't resolve it.
There seems to be that kind of MIDI channel setting in Logic itself. But if there's also a MIDI channel setting out of the devices themselves, I don't know where that's set up. I also don't know if the Audio MIDI Setup app needs to be configured in a particular way.
Right now, only the U-Key has a device icon in the Audio MIDI setup.

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