Can logic pro read sound fonts?

I am currently trying to use Garageband and have reached a couple of cripling limitations.
1) the orchestra instruments I need are not supported (oboe d'amore and baritone oboe)
2) there are free sound fonts available which contain good samples of these instruments but Garageband can only read the FIRST instrument from a sound font?  Which basically (in my opinion) means it cannot read a sound font.
Can Logic Pro read soundfonts correctly?  Can I use all the instruments from a sound font using Logic Pro?

jimka_2001 wrote:
When you say "can convert sound fonts"  do you mean just the first instrument in the sound font, or all of the instruments in a single sound font?
All of the instruments get converted into single patches located inside a folder. Only one set of samples from the soundfont exist, but each patch from the soundfont is available as a single entity. In other words, you don't select the soundfont and have individual patches available within the SF, each patch is loaded as a separate instrument.
Which makes me think... are you sure that Garageband isn't doing this?

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