Hi Nick. Great questions and similar to the questions I too had, so I looked in the Tyros4 Reference Manual and here are the answers based on what I could gleam reading it (pages 25-27)

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- Can you make custom drum kits that can be a combination of sounds from all the other drum kits on the keyboard?


YES

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- Can you select which individual drum sounds of a Single Drum Kit have effects applied to them?


YES

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- Is there individual EQ for each drum part in a single drum kit?


NO

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- Has there been any Yamaha or third party Drum kit samples released that can be sampled straight in and saved on the flash board?


Not yet, at least to my knowledge. I hope Yamaha or 3rd party producer offers something like this up soon.
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