Addictive Drums + other MIDI Drum editing

[Old_Ben]

For those of you that use midi based drums when recording / editing songs, do you guys prefer to mix them inside the program with fx built in, or do you export each piece of the kit as a separate track and mix using other things?

[Mornats]

I use EZDrummer 2 and tend to use a bit of both methods. In EZD2 you choose a drum kit with a range of presets rather than select a kit then add on the effects settings if you know what I mean. Bit of a pain as I'd much rather separate out the raw drum kits from the presets. I'll then select the "build multi-channel routing for output of selected FX" option in Reaper and it chucks each of the drum channels onto separate tracks. I can then pop any effects onto those individually. Mostly it'll be side-chain compressing between the kick drum and bass. If I want any overall ambiance/room effects that will affect the whole kit I find it easier to do that in the EZD interface.

[RockfordStone]

i use superior drummer, and have a template where i have them routed out of the programme and mix in the daw... dunno why just feels like a logical work flow