yeah,
what Dnarkosis suggests is what I do usually. (Dnarkosis, mate...you give some pretty good advise my man, keep it up!!)
The only problem is you have less MIDI channels to work with. When writing a track I sometimes use 15 MIDI channels for the drums and then record then all in audio so that I can sequence MIDI over the top. another option is to pan the sound when editing a drumkit this is Ok if you want say, the highhat L28 or whatever...but then you can't change it in realtime without changing everything else on channel 10.