Need to split partition my Mountain Lion HDD with Lion.

Hi all,
My MBP was shipped with Lion, I bought Mountain Lion and upgraded. However I now need to install Lion onto a partition of my HDD for my Firewire mixer (Phonic Helixboard 12 MKII). This mixer doesn't work with Mountain Lion sadly as they said they weren't updating the drivers...bad times. I also want a bootable partition for using my laptop live. Having nothing else but my music software running sort of thing to reduce technical hitches.
Anyway, I cannot find the Lion .app installer on the store (even with sneaky "option" on the purchases). Presumably I have never bought Lion then? Or is there something I'm missing?
Any ideas? I know I may be treading over old ground, but I've scoured the community for people that have Mountain Lion, but then need Lion. My main annoyance is that I've theoretically bought Lion as it came with the MBP.
(Also didn't know if this'd be an OS problem or MBP problem, sorry if I've placed this in the wrong place)
Many Thanks.
Patrick.

First let's split the HDD up so both cats can live harmoniously (I also have a twin-cat household in mine so I can tell you it does work). You need to boot off something not on the internal HDD whose partition table you are going to modify. If you have a bootable clone on an external drive, use that. Else concoct a bootable USB Recovery Disk on a flash stick with the Recovery Disk Assistant, as detailed here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848 Also make sure you have a full and complete backup in case all goes South and you end up needing to reformat the drive entirely.
When you have booted as needed, run Disk Utility from the external drive. Choose the drive in the list so the Partitions tab appears, click on that. You'll see your Macintosh HD volume using up all the drive space. Clck and drag from the lower-right corner upwards to shrink the volume. Can only do so if there's unused room left. You will have an empty space left underneath. Click Apply to complete the shrinking. Then click on the plus ( + ) button to create a new volume in the newly freed space. Give it a name, make sure it is OS X Extended (Journaled) and Apply. Ta-da, you now have TWO volumes for your cats.
Now, if you're using the USB Recovery Disk, simply exit out of Disk Utility to return to the top-level menu and be able to choose "Reinstall OS X". Do that now, choosing your new and blank volume as the destination. If my calculations are right, you should be granted access to the default cat originally entitled to your Mac, which would be Lion and what you want.
Try that for now. If the right cat does not float down the wire, we'll do more brainstorming on how to get it.

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