Is it possible to choose which MIDI channel Komplete Kontrol responds to when loaded in a DAW?

OmniFace

In Kontakt you can load multiple instruments in the same plugin instance and set them to different channels. You can then use keyboard split mode in the Komplete Kontrol keyboards to play each separately using a zone on the keyboard.

EDIT: I wish to do the same with Razor in Reaktor, NOT Kontakt...

I'm aware Komplete Kontrol can't load multiple instruments, but I was hoping to to do something similar by loading multiple instances of the Komplete Kontrol plugin in a single track of my DAW (Reaper), and then assign them each a unique MIDI input.

I don't see that this is possible so far. Am I mistaken?

I wish to do this because I'm setting up a single project that will contain a full set list of songs to play live. To keep the size of the project down, I want to load each song into it's own track with all of the instruments that should be played live for that song. Ideally, I might even load all the songs into one track and use automation to enable/disable the instances of the plugin.

I was hoping to use Komplete Kontrol to do this because you can load an instrument AND additional VST plugins in the chain, such as an EQ to hi pass the output or reverb and compression. That would mean I could simply enable/disable a single KK instance and not accidentally leave on the EQ, reverb, or compressor on, affecting the new instrument.

Unfortunately, if I can't choose the MIDI channel manually, I'll have to make a single track in the DAW for EACH instrument (perhaps 4 per song), and EACH song in the set list so I can mute/unmute tracks as needed.

I would end up with like 50 tracks to manage just for the keyboards... which isn't ideal.

OmniFace

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/32433#Comment_32433

So I found that Razor and a few others have an INSTRUMENT layer below the ensemble layer. You have to change the MIDI channel on that layer to get it to alter correctly.

but Kontrol still doesn’t let you choose a MIDI channel when used as a plugin in a DAW.

I ended up using separate MIDI busses in Reaper so that I could use channel 1 on each bus, but still have multiple plug-ins in one track, each assigned to busses 1-16 (but channel 1).

Being able to use MIDI channels in Kontrol would have made it a lot simpler.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/34573#Comment_34573

Yes, that's exactly the problem. :) If I put 2 instances of Reaktor onto the same track, they both respond to channel 1. But I wanted to have them each respond to their own channel instead. Putting them on the same track is to help keep the project organization clean. Otherwise I'll have an extraordinary number of tracks to manage.

As noted above, I figured a way around this using Reaper's MIDI Busses which can be set up similarly to channels, but each bus can use channel 1 so the various instrument defaults don't get in the way.