Wow! Surprised at the depth in Groove Agent. Very much surprised that I get Reverence with some very decent reverb impulses (though a limited selection) - and per-drum sound too. As well as all the other dynamics I can route individually without going into the mixer. TBH I haven't used the Cubase FX much at all, and I thought Artist didn't get Reverence...seems I was completely wrong on that.
Got some nice stick + reversed pre-delay reverb sitting alongside the usual stuffAnyhoo - can I route individual drums to different busses? Couldn't initially see a way, and TBH life is just too short to trawl through the manual to find it. I'd be surprised if it can't - it seems to do everything else. Initially thought I'd render down individual drum sound tracks, but that's just tedious and likely unnecessary. I like to put different compression on kicks, possiby other sounds, then a whole drumtrack comp - and busses would be the way to go rather than rendering. I don't want to have to use completely different FX on everything, but just on some of the sounds.
Very impressed with Groove Agent. Must admit, Cubase has moved on since I last used it in real anger. It's odd - the basics seem just foreign enough to be a steep learning curve all over again. But the in-depth fiddly bits seem really acessible once you're up and running - maybe I just have my head on backwards...
