Hooking up two midi controllers to Logic Express 7.2 to trigger two sounds

Hi,
I must preface this by saying I have no experience what so ever with using midi with logic except for plugging in one of my usb midi keyboards and playing piano, and organ sounds from garageband and logic.
I need help figuring this out. Here's what I have:
1. M-audio O2 usb midi controller
2. Evolution Mk-461c usb midi controller
3. 14" ibook G4 running Logic 7.2 and OS 10.4.11
Here's what I want to do but can't seem to make it work:
I want to connect both the M-audio and Evolution keyboards and use the M-audio to play bass sounds through Logic using the garageband bass sounds, and organ sounds through Logic using the tonewheel organ sounds from garageband.
Right now I either get both keyboards producing the bass sound or the organ sound. Not one doing bass and the other doing organ.
I just realized as I was typing this- You can only use one Garageband sound at a time, right? Is that why I'm having this problem?
Can I get the M-audio doing the bass sound from Garageband and the Evolution doing a synth sound from Logic at the same time?
Is it at all possible to do what I want to?

brzilian76 wrote:
This is a painful and involved process in LE7 which requires an understanding of the MIDI enviroment. Its so much easier to do in LE8/9 - I would just fork over the $99 and upgrade.
If paying for the upgrade were and option I'd gladly do it, but unfortunately it's not in the budget right now.

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