Help setting up midi keyboards

Hello everyone,
I'm a newbie and was trying to figure out how to set up two midi keyboards to run two different midi instruments so that one instrument gets the data from one keyboard and the other instrument gets its from the other.
I have a Edirol PC-50 midi keyboard plugged into a usb port and I also have a Casio CTK-611 hooked up to a m-audio usb-uno 1x1 midi cable thats also plugged into the mac usb port. Both keyboards play the instruments fine but they play both instruments together. I cant seem to figure out how to assign one keyboard to its own instrument. I have read several forums and noticed other people had the same issues but have not come across a solution yet. I have also read the manual and did what page 382 said to do but that seemed to make things worse I got no sound that way. I know I must have some setting wrong or maybe it's my gear thats not compatible.
I would also like to control a third midi instrument with the caps lock keyboard at the same time. Basically what I'm trying to achieve is to have two friends over and each pick out a drum set and all three jam away together "A Midi drum circle"
Can somebody please walk me through how I should be setting this up?
All help and suggestions are welcome
Thank you all in advance,
Aaron

By "devices" you mean patches or programs listed on
the synth, right?
Yes. When I add the keyboard to the environment GM MIDI is automatically chosen. The sounds play through the keyboard speakers rather than my monitors. At first, I thought my keyboard voices were playing. I started looking at how to access the voices that come with the keyboard, even did some reading up on it, but didn't quite understand. (I have been able to use them as an audio track, but not MIDI.) I discovered they could be added individually or a set may be downloaded and installed (could not find one). After failure with each I came here.
What synth is it?
Yamaha DGX-505.
The bank select window will not provide a patch list.
Some mfrs use a cutomized way to select banks-so
Logic offers this window in case you have one of
them.
If I ever find a patch list how would I install it?

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