1 MIDI track -> multiple VSTI's possible?

Let's say I have a single MIDI drum track going into... say, Steven Slate Drums. Now, I want to layer the SSD kick with another sample I made with Kontakt. Is there a way to have this single MIDI drum track trigger MIDI for both SSD and Kontakt?
 
Currently I see no way to do this, and I am forced to do the following:
 
Select only the kick MIDI notes, paste to new MIDI track, set the output to Kontakt. So now I have 2 copies of the kick MIDI. That's kind of hacky.

So I take it that it's not possible then. The whole idea was to avoid having 2 separate MIDI tracks of the same instrument.
 
I'm fine with separating each drum as separate MIDI tracks (kick, snare, toms, cymbals etc all on separate MIDI tracks), in fact it's what I do anyway (on larger projects).
 
But if I want to layer the kick using both SSD and Kontakt (for example), or layer snares from 3 different VSTis, I'd have to create many copies of the same thing.
 
If at a later time I need to edit the kick pattern, I'd have to delete all of the extra copies, and leave behind only 1 copy, do the edits, the re-copy it to the other layers. This has the disadvantage of me not being able to hear the final composite layered sound when I click on the notes in the PRV because I am only able to work on 1 kick while editing.
 
I am aware of "copy as linked clips" but again I feel this is kind of unnecessary (and might be prone to user errors as far as clip management goes, ALSO this still exhibits the problem where I cannot hear the final layered sound while doing this, clicking on the note in the PRV will only play the sound of the currently selected MIDI track), where as a "MIDI Send" of sorts would make much more sense.
 
Thanks anyway.

Ahhh...my bad, I misunderstood. Yes it's a pity CW does not seem to allow multiple "outs" from a single MIDI track...maybe using some form of virtual midi router (LoopMidi et al) and a Rewire facility perhaps?

Does anyone know if Sonar supports all features of VST 3? If so I can make a VST 3 plugin that can be used to easily route the MIDI to multiple tracks. I played with my previous VST 2 plugin that passes MIDI through but was just reading about the VST 3 spec. It might make more sense to just go that route since it provides more features like multiple MIDI inputs (and outputs?) which might open up some additional MIDI routing options.
 
EDIT: So it seems VST 3 does support multiple MIDI inputs and outputs. I wonder if this can be used to create some sort of MIDI patchbay inside a single VST. That should help work around the limited Sonar MIDI routing options until CW can add this directly to Sonar. Such a plugin should be relatively straightforward to create.

I'm in the process of trying to modify one of the VST 3 samples to see if Sonar even supports passing MIDI through.
 
All of the default sample Steinberg VST3 plugins have the "Enable MIDI Output" disabled in Sonar. This could either be due to Sonar not supporting this at all, or none of the VST3 sample plugins actually support sending MIDI events out (most likely).
 
I searched around on KVR's plugin database but was not able to find anything resembling a plugin that can simply pass MIDI events through. Something like a MIDI filter or "MIDI patchbay", but setting it to pass all events unchanged should work.

bitflipper
...not if you link the tracks. There's just one MIDI track and all the data is read from it...
The second "track" is a convenient artifice...

I have used that method, i.e. make a linked copy of the midi track, but I found that after a bit of editing it kept losing the link and I kept having to create it again.  I gave up on it in the end.  But that was back when I was using Sonar 6 and I haven't tried it lately.

SilkTone
 
Where does the 2nd output show up? I'm not sure I follow...

(I just tried this)
 
I don't think there's any automatic way of setting this up.
You have to create a second midi track, set options/drag and drop options to copy entire clips as linked, then copy the clip(s) to the new track.
 
From that point on, everything you do to the midi in a clip gets reflected in the copy.
 
So the second output is off the second midi track.
 
Thanks bitflipper for the tip.
 
 

Nash, OK I'll take a stab at it. I modified the one I linked to above by removing all extraneous controls and code (so it simply passes through all MIDI events) and compiling it for 64-bit. But it seems to have some issues on 64-bit, so I'll try and see what the deal is there.
 
As mentioned above, if you want to do a proof-of-concept you can actually use the plugin linked to above in either Sonar 32-bit or 64-bit and just leave all settings at their defaults. At least that way you can see if it does what you need until I can sort out the 64-bit version.