What I do is create a Midi track for the drums if you use a midi drum instrument or create seperate audio tracks(channels) if you use sample based drums or a vsti with multiple outputs for each drum.

Add any effects to each drum track(channel) then Route all your drum tracks(channels) to a group channel and add compression to the group channel.

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for dance music , i think it will be more efficient to make everything have its own channel. That way you can copy and paste alot easier.

Yeah, that is what I do.

I'd recommend using a sampler like battery. Then when setting up your samples you can also assign each one to a different output channel (e.g. mono for kicks) or channels (e.g. stereo fx samples), and perform general mixing inside battery.

Then in the cubase audio mixer you've got each percussion part assigned to its own channel and you can mix / effect them any way you want.

As Bedlam-UK says, you'll probably want to set up groups of channels too, for compressing parts together. You can group them either inside Battery or in Cubase (I find it much easier to just use Battery)

But yeah in general, you want to keep control over each part as much as possible. Routing all drum samples to one audio channel will make it hard to mix properly.

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Do you find yourselves running out of stereo channels when you assign your drums to them?

I can see putting cymbals and random flavoring noises in stero channels, but do you really need to put kicks and snares there?

I'm a noob too so I have lots of questions and I'm slowly making my way through the manual. Thanks for the tips so far guys.

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Nope I never run out of channels in battery. You should assign everything that should be in mono to the mono channels (kick, snare etc.)