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Many years ago, I used a Creative GM SoundFont (2GMGSMT.SF2) for the drums in a project that I was doing in Cakewalk Sonar. In Sonar, how to do this seemed pretty straightforward. The SoundFont contained the GM/GS melodic instruments, and the GS drumsets and SFX set, and I think it was merely a matter of choosing the correct bank and patch in a dropdown menu. Now I’m trying to import this project, track by track, into Logic and to get it to sound like it once did. I know how to import SoundFonts into Logic, but when I import 2GMGSMT.SF2, I see all the general midi instruments, say, in Sequencer, but not the drum sets (0 - Standard kit, 8 - Room kit, 16 - Power kit, 24 - Electronic kit, etc.). Can someone walk me through each step of the Logic Pro way to get a midi drum track, already created and imported into a track, to use one of the GS drumsets from an imported GM SoundFont? I’m afraid I do not know a lot about midi. Terms like MSB and LSB get me lost.

I use to use Cakewalk's Sonar DAW back in the day. The older versions had a plugin or whatever called Session Drummer. It worked by having a bunch of pre-recorded MIDI drum files that one could load into the plugin and then drag and drop them in any order like a music playlist and also enter the number of times you wanted a particular MIDI drum file to play in a sequence. This MIDI drum "playlist" would only be written to the track if you armed the track and hit record. It would be nice if I could bring the folder of pre-recorded MIDI drum files over to Logic to continue working on an old project. I know Logic supports Loops, and essentially that's what these MIDI files are, but in Logic it seems that one can only preview and then drag and drop these right into the track. Is there something like a loops "playlist player" that will play an editable playlist of pre-made MIDI loops and then be able to have those get recorded into a track? I know about Live Loops but I think each change from loop to loop has to be actively triggered; I don't think it just automatically plays through a pre-made list of loops. Thanks.

Hey, sorry for the delay in replying. The MIDI plugin you directed me to is just about perfect. The original one on my old DAW (it was Cakewalk's FX Echo Delay) also had a feedback dial, which additionally echoed the phase shifted delay. This seems to work a little bit differently but otherwise mostly does what I wanted, so thanks. I have a few more questions to help me bring back a bunch of old DAW projects, but I'll do those in separate posts later today or tomorrow. Thanks again!

I have a MIDI song project from another DAW platform that used an echo plugin where one could take the echoed notes (in my case, echoed at ¼ notes with some feedback) and pitch shift them (in my case, it was an octave up). I can't seem to replicate this in Logic with the included plugins. Is there a (free) plugin out there for Logic that can do this?