Secondly, i didnt have any more mics with me today was the real reason. lol thanks again.

Ah! Yes, it's because that folder is located in the Sampler instrument library. It will only show up when you load Sampler for Drum Replacement. However, you can also access that folder by loading Sampler on a software instrument, and then inside of Sampler in the preset menu at the top, you'll see a category called "Factory". You can load the sounds from there was well.

Have you tried flattening/merging your takes? I was having the same issue until I realized that Logic will only allow you to use the drum replacement tool after the track is flattened.

So you have a few options if you're using Drummer. You won't need to convert to audio, because you already have the MIDI data right there in the drummer regions. What I would recommend doing is converting the drummer regions to MIDI. Control-click > Convert > Convert to MIDI Region. Then duplicate the MIDI region to another software instrument track. Then delete all of the notes except for the instrument you want to replace/layer, then add whatever instrument or sample you like. Then you'll have a separate replacer track that you can blend in with the rest of the drums. Alternatively, you could also swap out the instrument with another sound inside of Drum Kit Designer, although the options are limited.

@@MusicTechHelpGuy Thanks so much!

in case you haven’t figured it out. if you go into the midi scroll look at what piano note your trigger note is listed as and that’s what your trigger note is!

File>revert to, a previous save.

In my opinion, no drum instrument plugin even comes close to the sound of real drums, recorded in a good acoustic space, with nice microphones. Although, I do prefer layering in a kick and snare sample. But that's the key word "layer" - not replace. You're taking drum samples that can be perfectly isolated and phase aligned, and processed, and layering them with a drum recording, that cannot be individually phase aligned or isolated, for the best of both worlds IMO. You also get get the feel and groove of a real drummer. For rock and metal music, I think this is a necessity. Anytime I hear "machine gun drums" in a modern rock/metal mix, I'm immediately turned off. I feel like it's nearly impossible to re-create the dynamics and slight variances you get in a real acoustic drum kit, but that's just me. For any other genre, I'm down for an all sample approach.

@@MusicTechHelpGuy I’ve been a real drum advocate all my life, but I’m starting to change my mind. I often recorded acoustic drums with 10 inputs (Apollo Twin X + MOTU 8 pre) and I’d borrow high-end mic’s and pre-amps from a studio friend… that I couldn’t afford. The results were good, but it was a huge effort to setup and tweak, and comping multiple takes could get complicated. What I realized was the ‘performance’ of the drummer was key - not the drum sounds. I could have gotten similar results asking the same drummer to play eDrums and just capture the midi, then use the sampled drum sounds I prefer. Now… there are certain live drum sounds that are tough to replicate. For example, John Boham’s famous sound (using only 4 mic’s). But for most studio sounding drums, I’m leaning to no drummer necessary. I know it’s controversial.

Yeah, some people are purists. I don't get that attitude. Any tool I can use to make a recording sound better is in my toolkit. Auto-Tune, Melodyne, Drum Replacement, Comping Multiple Takes, Time Correction, these types of things have been around for decades in one shape or another. They're just easier to implement nowadays. Drum replacement isn't going to automatically make you a better drummer, it's just going to make the mix better. I think purists are just people that don't know how to, or don't want to learn to use modern production tools. In 2022 not a lot of independent musicians and bands have $800 to fork out for 1 day at a pro studio with high end mics, preamps, and a great acoustic space -- just to track drums. And even then, you still might layer some samples under the drums -- just look at every modern rock/metal band of the last 10-15 years.

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Such a terrible ideology, agreed. Your job as a Producer or engineer is to get the best tones and performance possible, period. How you get there shouldn’t matter. Plus, many people literally use a sample from the actual session they are doing the replacement on. How much more natural can you get?