You could always put a maximiser on the FX, but you’ll lose dynamic range. It is quiet though, along with most of the keysuite bundle. Still, better than overly loud/compressed/limited out of the box, and easy to add your own FX chain, and then save the patch to your user folder.
Yep, just select the layer in the tree, and you’ll notice the filter at keygroup in the editing window will now have a little count of how many instances you are editing at once. Very handy.