Motu Symphonic and Automation in Logic 8

Hi wise people. I'm just posting this from a previous thread to see if I can get some advice.
I have about 10 instruments on Motu each sent to their own specific channel. I went in and did some track automation on each of them, just volume(subtle increases and decreases) and pan but when I hit play and look at the Motu instrument itself the volume fader is going nuts while the piece plays. I think this is what the problem is. Is there a way to set the Motu volume at a static point while changing the volume on individual instruments within Motu?
Thanks for any advice.

Helen Kelly wrote:
I went in and did some track automation on each of them, just volume(subtle increases and decreases) and pan but when I hit play and look at the Motu instrument itself the volume fader is going nuts while the piece plays.
I do not own Motu Symphonic, but I thing I guess where is the problem...
Logic Track Automation is 98% based to record Logic behavior "Fader" message events type with 2% exception of Level and Pan which is recorded as CC# track automation events i.e CC7&10. Motu is a Multitimbral software synth and its multi channel/parts level faders are probably factory mapped to "Host-CC7". You must re-read the Motu documentation and find out how to re-map the level or pan faders to other Controllers (for example CC12,CC13 etc) out of CC7&10 which affect the Logic Channel Strip level and pan faders.
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