Recording 2 MIDI keyboards

How do I record 2 MIDI keyboards playing at once in Logic 8?
For example, One keyboard a Piano instrument, and one an Organ Instrument.
I have refered to "Multiplayer recording" in the manual. Having "Auto Demix..." checked allows me to record each keyboard on a different track. When playing back the MIDI recording, one track plays back as piano and one as Organ. That is fine. However, while recording, the sound from both keyboards is of a mix of Organ and Piano. Or, if I select a track, for example, the Piano, both keyboards play as Piano. But will record as separate piano and organ. What am I doing wrong? I would like to hear one keyboard as Piano, and the other as Organ while recording also. Has anyone sucessfully setup something like this?
(keyboard in Port 1 set to MIDI 1, keyboard in Port 2 is set to MIDI 2. Track 1 is Piano Instrument, Track 2 is Organ Instrument.)

All of Logic's I/O, whether audio or MIDI, is handled through the environment, and "objects".
One type of object is an "Audio" object, and this can have a variety of types (Audio Track, Audio Instrument, Input, Output, Bus, Aux etc).
To use software instruments, you instantiate them on Audio Instrument objects. So for instance, you may have an EXS24 on Audio Instrument 3. You generally create an arrange track, which is set to play to Audio Instrument 3, in order to play and record with it. Or you can change which object assigned to an arrange track by command-clicking on the track name and selecting "Reassign track object" and choosing the new environmetn object assigned to that track.
In order to use the multlplayer record feature, you must set the MIDI channel on this Audio Instrument object.
So, select the track which is playing the Audio Instrument object you are using for your first instrument, and in the inspector/parameters, display the Audio Instrument objects parameters, and set the MIDI channel to 1 (it probably defaults to "All" ie it responds to events on any MIDI channel).
In the inspector/parameters, there are thre areas - the top is the MIDI region parameters, the middle section is the object parameters, and the lowest section is the channel strip. Open the middle section by clicking on the arrow to reveal the object parameters if they are not visible. These are the parameters for whichever object is assigned to your selcted track.
Change the MIDI channel accordingly, and do the same for the other audio instrument object on the other track you want to simultaneously record on.

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