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When it comes to Beat Agent, the diversity of the 100 or so kits is staggering, including electronic and urban music styles of all genres with both ‘vintage’ and ‘modern’ sound sets. By comparison, GA4’s 9GB core library seems positively modest.įor Percussion Agent, the 20 or so presets give you variations of the same basic percussion set, but this includes a diverse selection of instruments from the humble triangle to some impressive congas and, where appropriate, different articulations based upon strikes with the palm, finger tap and so on, each triggered via separate MIDI notes.

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Drum sampling has come a long way over the last few years, and software such as BFD3 boasts astounding attention to detail in this regard. Providing your eyesight is up to the task, everything is perfectly usable, it’s just that there is a lot of it and finding your way around takes an investment of time - be prepared. The level of control might, to some new users, seem quite daunting, and this is perhaps not helped by just how compact (er, small) some of the controls, buttons and settings are. Indeed, in a review of this length, it is very difficult to do justice to exactly just how many options this right-side pane can cough up as you work your way through the different Agents and the various tabs on offer. If you like to get down and dirty with your drum-machine samples, you can certainly do it here.

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Here you get a range of editing options including loading/replacing samples (including your own samples), adjusting the pitch, pan, filter, time-stretching, loop points and amplitude envelope plus a whole lot more. You also get to pick between two different snare and kick sounds. For example, under the Edit tab with the Acoustic Agent you get a drum kit graphic that allows you to tweak the settings for each kit piece, including the amount of room/overhead mics and the bleed. The options available to you in the right side of the display depends upon whether you have the Pattern or Instrument tab selected in the left pane and, to a certain degree, upon which Agent you have in the currently selected kit slot (the features offered are different for each Agent). By default, the instrument pads for each kit slot respond on MIDI channels 1 to 4 while the pattern pads respond to any MIDI channel, but there is plenty of flexibility here and even a completely separate virtual MIDI port that can be activated for the pattern pads if required. Pattern view provides you with a similar set of eight banks/16 pads per bank where you can store MIDI patterns to be triggered, and these also apply to the currently selected kit slot. In Instrument view you can explore, edit and play whatever samples are currently assigned to any of the eight banks of 16 pads for the currently selected kit slot. Groove Agent 4 is available for 179 EUR starting from August 20th, 2014.Beat Agent offers very detailed sample-editing options, including up to eight velocity layers.In the ‘pad’ pane, you can toggle between Instrument view and Pattern view.

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Advanced Cubase integration with drag and drop, full automation and automatic drum map exchange.Integrated mixing board with high-end audio effects for flexible control over all aspects of your drum sound.Jam mode creates immediate backing tracks, including intro, fills and ending.Style Player plays in the desired complexity and intensity, generates auto fills and much more.

Full pattern editor for groove editing on the fly.

Percussion Agent with more than 20 instruments to complete your virtual rhythm section.

Beat Agent drum sampler for electronic music production including advanced slice editing and automatic drum hit recognition.

Acoustic Agent virtual drummer with stunningly detailed drum kits for unmatched realism.

Huge library including over 22,000 samples and more than 3,800 grooves and patterns for any contemporary music style.

Complete virtual drum workstation including three specialist Agents for drums, beats and percussion - combinable in four slots.

Steinberg launches Groove Agent 4, a new complete drum workstation that combines three specialist rhythm modules in one: craft dazzlingly authentic drum tracks, produce dancefloor-filling beats and design slinky percussive grooves with a dedicated Agent for each task.