Steinberg Groove Agent 5

‌Steinberg Groove Agent 5 virtual instrument

Beating the drum for every style

Make Your Beats With The Best Creative Drum Software — Groove Agent

Designed for both songwriters and beat producers, Groove Agent 5 includes the very best of electronic and acoustic drums. One of the most detailed acoustic drum kits ever featured in Groove Agent sits alongside a wide variety of percussion, modern electronic drums and MIDI grooves, delivering an inspirational rhythmic composition tool for producers in every genre, from jazz, funk and rock to Trap and EDM. Support for VST, AU and AAX plug-in formats means Groove Agent 5 can be used with virtually any DAW.

• Exceptional-quality acoustic drums and percussion
  
• Banging electronic drums for Trap, EDM and more
  
• New Decompose feature for your own signature drum sound
  
• Over 1,000 MIDI grooves for a wide range of different genres

What You Can Do With Groove Agent

Beatmaking

• A wide array of hard-hitting drum kits from top electronic producers like Audeka, Rawtekk, zKlang or Joe Ford provide the fattest beats.
  

Songwriting

• High-quality acoustic drums with many articulations can be combined with MIDI grooves for fast and inspired songwriting.
  

Jamming

• Jam mode creates immediate backing tracks, including intro, fills and ending — perfect for practice, improvising and sketching ideas.
  

Beat editing

• Like a step sequencer for drums, the pattern editor lets you create complex rhythms in perfect timing, simply by clicking in the grid.
  

Live Sampling

• Record analog drum synthesizers, acoustic drums or any other audio via Groove Agent, manipulate the sound and build your own kits.
  

Sound Design

• Creative effects, layering up to four different kits and features like the new Decompose let you easily create your own signature sound.
  

Highlights

A new standard of dynamic acoustic drums; new kits for electronic music; new MIDI grooves; live sampling; Decompose feature for your own signature drum sound; 32 velocity layers; updated and resizable user interface… plus much more!

More Than 30 New Kits For Edm, Trap And Other Styles

All new kits have been created for Groove Agent 5 by top electronic artists including Rawtekk, Audeka, zKlang, Joe Ford and a number of other young and hungry producers. As well as beat patterns, Beat Agent kits also now include samples like basses, small melody parts, miscellaneous hits and other noises. Further great news is that you can now also use the Style Player for Beat Agent.

Exciting New Styles For Songwriters

Groove Agent 5 features 20 new MIDI Styles for songwriters, including intro, outro, fills and different complexities. They cover a range of genres, including rock, progressive rock, blues rock, alternative rock, indie, funk, soul, jazz, crossover and reggae, with every style played by a top drummer and exclusively mixed for The Kit.

Sound Design With Decompose

Decompose is a sound designer’s dream! With it you can load a sample and easily separate it into its tonal and noise components. Once you’ve done that, you can easily drag and drop each part onto Groove Agent pads to layer your drums, creating an endless array of possibilities. Just imagine combining a fat 808 kick tone with the noise of a 909 snare. Or an electronic snare with the noise of an acoustic hi-hat.

Change The Pitch Of Samples

Create new exciting drum sounds with changing the pitch envelope of a sample. This is especially great for EDM music if you want to create drops and build ups or if you want to do pitch adjustments of pre-recorded drums. Combined with the new Decompose you can also modulate the pitch of tone and noise separately – a very unique approach in working with drum sounds.

Overview Of Every New Feature In Groove Agent 5

20 new MIDI Styles

• Played and mixed by top drummers and engineers
  

32 plug-in outputs

• You can use more audio outputs than ever before
  

32 velocity layers

• Groove Agent now handles up to 32 velocity layers
  

Decompose sounds

• Easily separate sounds into the tonal and noise components for an endless array of possibilities
  

Drag and drop samples on pads

• Build your own kits of single instruments, recorded or Decomposed samples
  

Drag and drop to Cubase

• Drag samples or MIDI grooves from Groove Agent to Cubase
  

Export mix to Cubase 10

• … including all inserts in each channel strip
  

Filter content by instrument

• New Beat Agent kits are also available as single instrument presets
  

Improved Style Player

• New auto complexity mode, with export options for complexities and fills
  

Live sampling

• Record your own samples directly to pads in Groove Agent
  

Load styles and MIDI

• … with a simple double click
  

More than 30 new Beat Agent kits

• For EDM, Trap, Future Bass, Drum ‘n’ Bass, Modern Funk and more
  

New Pitch modulation

• The perfect addition for Decompose: pitch only the tonal part and leave the noise unpitched
  

New auto complexity mode

• After inserting a drum fill, you can define the complexity of how it’s played
  

New modern user interface

• Resizable, undockable and ready for HiDPI
  

Pre-listening pads and Styles

• Even during playback you can switch instruments or grooves and hear if they fit in
  

Revised pitch envelope

• … with much better handling
  

Sample view in envelope editors

• Show samples in the background of envelope editors
  

Selectable auto fills

• In the Style Player, you can now select just the auto fills you want to use
  

Solo per layer

• Solo listening of samples on pads with more than one layer
  

Style Player for Beat Agent

• Acoustic MIDI styles now can be played by electronic kits
  

The Kit

• The finest acoustic drums, recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin