I want to automate the knobs and controls in Kontakt, used as a VSTi in Cubase. Here's my setup and how to get it all working.

Here's how to route each instrument in a Kontakt 5 instance to a separate channel in Cubase, so that they can be processed individually. Using Kontakt 5.6.5, Cubase Artist 9, OSX 10.11.

Here's my scenario: I have various MIDI instruments playing on different MIDI ports (in my case, different IAC Driver ports, on OSX). All the instruments are sending on channel 1, to their respective ports. And I want to route this to a single instance of Kontakt with various virtual instruments in it, each one listening on a different MIDI channel.