Controling diferent soft instruments at a time with one Keyboard?

Hello guys!
i am trying to create a live looping rig in mainstage...
My idea is to have 3 loopers where i could loop Drums, Synths and guitar, all of theese coming from mainstage!
Só currently i am kind of stuck on this...
i want to have one drum sound, one bass synth sound, one electronic keyboard sound and one guitar sound per patch (wich will work like songs for me)
The problem is, when i play my keyboard (Novation 25SLmkII) all of the soft synths play at once...
What is the best solution to overcome this? Solo the track i want to use? assing diferent midi channels for everything?
Thanks for your help

yes, changing patches is really the way to do it, but if you want to change instruments in 1 patch, then just do this one part:
create 4 Instrument Channels
set each one to a different MIDI Channel (1-4 for example)
create 4 virtual keyboards each on a separate MIDI Ch (1-4 for example)
use your controller to switch between MIDI Channels (change channels on your controller to switch between playing the different Instrument Tracks in MS.)
the trick to multiple looping is if you DO change Patches, then you have to create your LoopBack AUX's at the Set level so that you can continue to hear them in each Patch or create alias's for them in the other Patches.  That's where this method may be less complicated. 
the Concert, Set, Patch levels are JUST like Folders in the Finder.  Alias Track' are like alias files as well.  It might be less confusing to think of it like that. 
as for my use of MS, I'm in transition for being a live guitarist and studio production guy to a live band-in-the-box guy.  i've been playing with a cross between DJ and live performance guy.  I have a GiO and a MINILAB and they are all bus powered so i just need a couple of battery amps and i can play little concerts under the bridges and in the stairwells. 
i guess i'm trying to make it act like Abelton Live and push it to its limits in that direction as a beat/sound machine.  when i make enough $ to justify buying Logic i'll probably use MS to seed projects that i'll finish in Logic.

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