I am unable to drag and drop midi to my DAW instrument track. I drag the blank page icon to the track or even to the desktop and it just snaps back without dropping the midi. I'm using Ample Sound Guitar M v. 4.00 in Logic Pro 11.2.2. I'm on an iMac M1 running Sequoia. Any ideas? Thanks very much.

 

I do not have this plugin and it is larger than I want to install just to test it. You are probably familiar with it that some plugins handle this perfectly in Logic like Falcon, Toontrack, Serum2, drum machines and so on. Some others will not, and you could even just have some odd Logic settings going on with your Snap, like Snap Notes to Absolute value and even your track zoom levels.

So before asking a bunch of questions about your Logic project settings, I asked the AI and it says that Ample Sound does not have drag and drop support into Logic from their AU format plugins. See what if it has to say makes sense:

Spoiler

Ample Sound is one of the few developers whose drag-drop isn’t supported in Logic. The blank-page icon they use is basically just a standard “write a .mid file to cursor” function — Logic’s AU hosting doesn’t handle that method the same way it does for Serum/Falcon. Other DAWs (Cubase, Studio One, Live, even Reaper) accept it, but in Logic it always does the “snap back” you saw.

So in Logic specifically, Ample Guitar M requires one of these workarounds:

1. Use the plugin’s built-in export

• Open the Riffer panel in Ample Guitar.
  
  
• Click the little menu or right-click → choose Export MIDI / Save as MIDI file.
  
  
• Save it somewhere, then drag that file from Finder into Logic’s track.

2. Capture the MIDI output in real time
If you’d rather skip file export every time, you can route the plugin’s MIDI out into Logic:

1. Create a Software Instrument track and load Ample Guitar M.
   
   
2. Create a second External MIDI track (not instrument).
   
   
3. In that track’s inspector, set the MIDI Destination to Ample Guitar M.
   
   
4. Arm the MIDI track, hit record, and play a riff in Ample → the notes/patterns will be captured as editable MIDI.
   
   
5. Copy/paste that MIDI region to any other instrument you like.

If this does not address it, then it is a Logic setting you have doing it. (easy to fix or workaround).