Comping Live Drums How?

The way to do this unfortunately needs to be setup BEFORE you record. The new(ish) comping mode has an option in your Preferences to "Group Clips in Folders" (or something like that... right click on the Transport Record button and the menu comes up IIRC). You would put all your drum mic tracks in a folder then record your drum parts.
 
Now it's been quite a while since I've done this but IIRC that makes it so all the clips recorded in one take (in all your various tracks) get automatically grouped (so when you edit one all the clips from that take respond to the edit thus keeping them "in phase").
 
For there what you would do is comp normally using whatever track you want to use to do your edits on (like you could just make your comp splits on the snare track and all the other drum parts will respond to those edits like promoting, moving, fades, etc).
 
You do NOT want to move ANY of the multi mic'd tracks without moving all the others from the same take (it'll screw up the phase or worse and sound like crap).
 
If it was all recorded to a click you should be able to just select and promote the take (set) you want to use at the correct spots, adjust and X-Fade the splits and bingo bango... you've got a multi mic comp.
 
 
If you did NOT use the "Group Clips In Folders" method then you have some work ahead of you.
 
What you need to do is go through ALL the clips in ALL the tracks and manually create selection groups for each take that was recorded. So you go through each track for each kit peice recorded and select Take 1 of each track, right click and select Create Selection Group (the wording may be different... I am not at the DAW yet but you can look it up and I encourage you to do so so you can learn properly instead of from a dumbf*ck like me).
 
Now all of the clips that were recorded in your first take can and will respond together to any edit moves.
 
Go through and repeat the procedure for every take the drummer performed (look at the Record # on the clips to match up the takes or the Take lane numbers but sometimes the take lane numbers get all flipped around for some reason... so use your ears as well).
 
One thing that you need to be REALLY careful of after you've created your selection groups is if you start using the comping tool to make splits. I've noticed in the past (with X3) that sometimes the comping tool will overide your user created selection groups. It's a major problem that I don't know if it's been fixed (or if I was doing something wrong).
 
Really I can help much beyond all that because it has been too long but hopefully some of the stuff I've mentioned will get you well on your way to reading up on the finer points of what I'm referring to... and you REALLY want to study this stuff a bit first because there is a lot to keep track of and understand to make it work properly.
 
One last thing... don't EVER mix and match the takes (like use the kick drum from take one and the snare drum from take 3). Due to the mic bleed it will screw up the phase of everything and likely just create a mess. There are other techniques that can be used to correct timing issues if need be but those are even more complex.
 
Cheers.

BMOG
Thanks for the reply and all the details can you point me where to begin reading on creating group selections?

If you look through the Reference Guide (the big 2000 page behemoth manual) find entries on "Clips", "Selection Groups", "Editing", "Multi Track Comping or Editing" and other such topics.
 
Most specifically you want read up on "Clip Selection Groups" or "Edit Groups".
 
Then for future recordings check out "Comping" and "Recording Modes". There is a vid in the CakeTV section of this site that actually shows the various Comping/Record modes from when they were introduced in X3. That vid might actually be helpful for understanding manually grouping the clips and editing as well (it'll show an editing workflow on multitracked parts).
 
You can also google those terms with the words "Cakewalk Sonar" in the search term. You should get a bunch of entries from the online manual.
 
Cheers.

Thank you

Yes the takes were played using the metronome if that is what you meant by clock?

Great article explained exactly what I need to do