Regarding "Is there a way of splitting the Cymbals / Toms or any other articulations to their own discrete mixer strip / track":
When you change, or add, an instrument using Search for Instrument, in the bottom of that area you can select if you want the close (main) microphones to be connected to the mixer's current microphone channels, or if it should create new channels.
For example - if you have a Yamaha snare and you add an electronic snare as a stack - when you load the electronic snare, you select if you want to connect the electronic snare to the current microphone channels for the snare ("Snare Top" in that case) - or if it should create a new channel...
