I realise a long time has passed since you posted this, but in case this helps: the right-most inlet of both noteout and ctlout objects is a number setting the MIDI channel the message is transmitted on. There are 16 MIDI channels. If you go over 16, then you start outputting on the next MIDI device. For example, 17 outputs on channel 1 of your second device. 18 on channel 2, etc.

I am also finding it a drag that PD doesn't remember your MIDI settings. Does anyone have any fix for this?