Q about using Kontakt player

Question

I'm a new user to the Kontakt player, which came with Garritan's Personal Orchestra, and I have a question about how the Kontakt player is generally used in Logic.
It seems the optimal way of using it is to assign the Kontakt Player to an Audio Instrument, and then have multiple tracks assigned to that Audio Instrument, each sending on different MIDI channels. Is that right?
The minor thing I don't like about this is that I can't use different track icons in the Arrange window, since track icons seem to be attached to the Audio Instrument. I rather like seeing my orchestra laid out with pictures.
So.. is this the right way of using it, or would there be too much overhead in bringing in a separate instance of the Kontakt Player for each track?
Thanks,
Steven

Answer 1

Just to clarify things... Velocity is not the same as Volume.
Volume is controlled via midi controller #7, Velocity is another type of midi control message, and is input with each note you play, (the value zero for velocity is like having volume at zero, but they are two different types of messages, velocity increases as you play harder, the max value for velocity is 127.
When using multi-instruments in logic, (i.e. Kontakt) due to Logic's midi implentation, it uses controller #7 for the entire audio instrument, hence all your multi midi parts move together when you move contoller #7 (Volume controller). One way around this is to use the expression controller, which is controller #11, instead of controller #7 to independently control the volume of each midi part.