Recording drums via midi

Alright I'm new to all of this (Midi, and recording on a PC) so please just humor me a bit. I have an alesis DM5 electric drum kit, I want to hook it up through the midi ports. First of all assuming this is possible, can I arm each track to recognize each trigger seperately for mixing and such later? Will the sound the DM5 sends out be the ones recorded? Assuming these things are possible, is there a way to lay out a tempo map so any imperfection can be quantized easily? Like I said, I consider myself ignorant right now and I need to learn a lot so the more help, the better. Thanks

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all assuming this is possible, can I arm each track to recognize each trigger seperately for mixing and such later? Will the sound the DM5 sends out be the ones recorded?

Im a drummer, dont know if this will help you, but you can remap all your midi triggers to be on independant channels which will allow you to seperate each drum on their own. I do that with midiOX, a very usefull tool! All my midi notes come in on channel 10, go through midiOX and each drum gets its own midi channel. This means I can manipulate individual drums and record individual drums as well. It also means you will need a lot more midi channels to record your drums but it adds a LOT more ability to tweak your drums on an individual basis. Hope that helps

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Okay, well it seems I've got the program receiving my drum tracks on the drum map, but i still can't hear it. Is there some setting on my PC or in the program that I am missing, that may be muting the tracks?