Logic Pro #47 - Drum Machine Designer 

But it all sounds the same. The unique characteristics of degradation naturally occurring during recordings on magnetic tape using analog cords to run that audio through a real board creates Living breathing recordings with individuality that is palpable. Digital is all the same and hits differently.

DMD is really meant for loading in and working with electronic drum kit samples; whereas, Drummer tracks are really just meant for generating drum patterns in different styles. While Drummer does have a few electronic "drummers" the scope of sounds is limited. Those electronic drummers actually use the DMD kit, while the acoustic drummers use Drum Kit Designer. So You can think of Drummer like a track feature that is one level higher than DMD. If you scroll download the list of electronic drum kits in the library, you'll see some options for some classic drum machines -- Roland CR78, TR606, 707, 808, 909, TR-727, CR-8000 and Simmons SDS-V. You could start with those. Although if you have a particular drum machine in mind, you could check and see if anyone has sampled these kits? If you can get the samples, you could load in all the samples into DMD and build your own version of your old drum machines in Logic.

@@MusicTechHelpGuy thanks for this extensive answer. At least I still have the Roland R5. I shall see if I can get the electronic sounds work for me in Logic. 👍🏻

Whoops! that was definitely a math mistake. LOL Well I guess most musicians can only count to 4, and on rare occasions 7.

How true! Love the video series. I’ve been a Logic user since mid-1994 on the Atari ST and since March 2002 on the Mac. I find dragging a sample to Quick Sampler, cropping the sample to reduce the number of slices in a long loop (or reducing them via the threshold) first and then sending it to DMD that way best to avoid running out of pad slots. It’s the best workaround, but hopefully, if enough people give Apple feedback, they might up the number of pad slots in the future!