#Groove agent drum kits update#
#Groove agent drum kits plus#

Unfortunately, Steinberg ran into difficulties during GA3 development that prevented it being released for a further year, but they managed to smooth a lot of ruffled feathers by starting a development timeline and associated blog ( to keep everyone informed about progress.

These include the Special Agent, with 15 drum styles of sample-based recordings the Percussion Agent, with eight groups of live-recorded percussion a new Dual Mode, offering a choice of any two of the three available modules and other additions such as 27 new Groove Agent styles, three new acoustic drum kits and an enhanced effects section for each of the 12 outputs. Unfortunately, its interface provided few opportunities for yet more growth, and since the original programmer had moved on to pastures new, Steinberg decided to rewrite Groove Agent 3 from the ground up, with an ambitious new list of options.

#Groove agent drum kits plus#

Groove Agent is essentially a virtual drummer VST Instrument that can play drum styles crossing many decades of history, each with a range of complexities, from laid back to busy, but with the flexibility to add accents and fills on demand.īy the time I reviewed Groove Agent 2 in SOS May 2005, it offered many more rhythm style options (81 instead of v1's 54) including grunge, punk and trip-hop, plus nine new kits, as well as up to eight stereo outputs available for more refined mixing options. Since it was first released, back in 2003, Steinberg's Groove Agent has come to the aid of many musicians who either don't want to or can't program drums, yet prefer not to rely on static sample-based loops. Upgrading from Groove Agent 2 and 3 to the current version is available for 119, – Euro.It's been a long time coming, but has the latest version of Steinberg's Groove Agent been worth waiting for?

#Groove agent drum kits update#

An update of Groove Agent 4 is to have the price of 99.99 euros. Groove Agent 5 is available now at a suggested retail price of 179, – Euro. In conjunction with the “Decompose Sounds” function, a new pitch modulation function that can modulate the pitch of the tonal parts of a sample without affecting the pitch of the sound part. In addition, the new Groove Agent 5 offers the possibility to use Groove Agent as a sampler, allowing the user to record his own samples directly on the pads of his choice. Thanks to native HiDPI support, even more details become visible.Īlso new is the Decompose function, the samples can be broken down into their tonal and noisy parts to then easily distribute them to individual pads. The GUI has been redesigned at Steinberg Groove Agent 5, is now fully scalable and can be adapted to any standard display size. The beat agent can now also take over basslines and melody parts.

In addition, the Beat Agent offers a total of 30 extensions created by artists of the electronic music scene. The samples of this new library were recorded using selected high-end recording hardware in the premises of the Berlin Teldex Studios. Starting with version 5, the Acoustic Agent has a completely new drum kit called “The Kit”.

Three combinable drum modules, the so-called agents, with different stylistics can be used. Of course, the concept of the Groove Agent drummer has remained the same. Add HiDPI support as well as a novel sound design tool that provides more detailed control over your own drum samples. According to Steinberg, this should offer a wider range of percussive sounds and grooves designed for both songwriters and beat producers. Steinberg announced the availability of the fifth version of the virtual drummer Steinberg Groove Agent 5.