Parallel Drum Compression in Cubase 5

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I need to do a parallel compression on a kit I recorded, but it seems like I'm taking an idiotic shortcut. I have every track (snare, kick, rack tom, floor tom and 2 overheads) routed to a single group track, and I have a compressed group track on a send from the original one. Although I can hear it working and control the compressed group track's send level, I can't solo the compressed group track by itself, and therefore must be doing something wrong here. If I am totally off the mark, what is the best way to use parallel drum compression in Cubase?
 
There isn't really a right or a wrong way, what you did is fine. I'll just pipe in with other options:

Do a send to either an fx bus or group bus from ever drum track.

Why? So you can vary the amount you send from each track.

Or: Some like to leave out the OH and compress each group on it's own in parallel. So you would setup like 3 fx/group busses and send your snares to one, the kick to one, and the toms to one (I don't really like to parallel the OH personally).


Any way you pick, if the results are good then what your doing it good.
 
Ah I like that multiple fx bus idea, I'll have to give it a shot.

However, isn't the conventional way of executing parallel compression to route all the drums to two different output groups, one uncompressed and one compressed? It seems as though there is no way to route a track to two different outputs at the same time in Cubase 5, at least not with my interface, which only has one stereo out. But should it rely on the interface at all? How can I, and if not, why can't I route a track to two different output group tracks?
 
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