Roland Octapad and Garageband

I'm having an issue with my audio interface and v-drums set up.
I have a Roland Octapad, with a line out to an M-Audio Mobile Pre interface. Garageband recognizes the interface, but I can't hear any sounds. I'm not trying to use the Octapad as a MIDI trigger (this works fine). I want to play the on-board sounds on the Octapad and record that output in Garageband.
The track shows activity, and also shows something recorded, but no sounds play while drumming or when playing back the recording.

GB doesn't come with a sound module type instrument with loads of sounds in it. Even if you have a third party one (such as Hypersonic which I use) I'm not sure there is any way to make it play back more than one patch per channel/ instance. This is possible in Logic with the right routing, but not in GB as far as I know.
Would it be easy to isolate the midi for each patch and send each part separately? If so it would be relatively straightforward to find an appropriate instrument for each patch, once you had the midi on your machine.

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