Multiple Midi Keyboards in Mainstage 1

Hi all
I am currently running mainstage with a Novation Remote SL61.
I want to also connect an Novation Remote SL25 to the set up, so I am running 2 Midi Controllers within Mainstage.
Does anyone know if this is possible?
Many thanks,
Steve

Just to be more specific, yes, you can use two (or more) separate keyboards.
If you have two identical controllers you sometimes can run into issues -- one way to work around this is to set the "device" drop down to all" and then set the channels differently, and have each keyboard send out everything on different channels.

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