The short answer: I think you should upgrade your hardware to record multiple tracks of drums.
The simplest way to record multiple tracks of digital drums is to simply send one drum sound into each input of a multi-input soundcard and just record each input as a seperate track. (e.g. kick to input 1, snare to input 2, hat to input 3, crash to input 4, ride to input 5, etc...)
To do this, you must have a drum module that has enough output jacks to feed each kit piece to a seperate output. You must also have a soundcard that has enough inputs to allow you plug in each track seperately. I don't think you have either, with the equipment you listed.
Still... there is a tedious workaround. Actually record your performance on the TD6 (it does have a record function, right?) and then set it up so that only the snare is heard on the right output. Plug the right output into input 1 on your soundcard and set up Reaper to record a track from that input. Now play back your recorded file from the TD6 and record the snare output into reaper as track 1, then repeat for each kit piece, recording one track at a time.
Note that the above technique will produce tracks that may not be aligned exactly right. It would be a good idea to put a little "blip" at the beginning of the drum performance, so you can use that to line up all the tracks after recording them into the computer.
The other option is to send the output of the TD6 into your computer not as audio, but as MIDI data. MIDI is a kind of digital sheet music. You can't "hear" midi, it's just a sort of electronic transcription that allows different devices to communicate with each other (similar to how your drum pads "tell" the drum brain to trigger, say, a snare sound).
So you can record midi in your computer, and then use the midi data to trigger, for example, software drum samples that you could then record as audio and route within REAPER however you like.
The mechanics of using MIDI are not rocket science, but they are a little beyond what I can fit into a forum post. You can find general MIDI primers on the web.
Cheers.
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