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There are benefits and drawbacks to both organizations. One of the main benefits of separating drums into different kits is to allow for synced launching of each drum lane separately. If they are all in the same kit, then you cant queue the drums to launch separately. Say, for instance, you want the hats to come in on the next measure. If the hats are in a separate kit, then you can queue the hats to come in at the next sync point, but if they are on the same kit, you have to unmute the hats at the precise moment you want them to start playing.

Another counterintuitive benefit of this is that separating kits can actually save cpu power. To use the same example, if using a single kit and the hats are muted, they are still "playing" in terms of cpu. A second instance of the same kit doesnt increase the ram usage because the samples are just loaded once into ram. Any processing beyond the raw audio of the sample is post-processed. If you use a separate clip for the hats, you can fully stop this clip from playing, thus saving CPU when not playing the hats.

The primary benefit of keeping the drums in a single kit is for easier mixing and applying fx to the whole kit.

The deluge doesnt have an interface to transfer data into the SD card. You have to use an external SD card reader, then ya just drag n drop!