Best reviews of ⌛ Steinberg Groove Agent 5 VST Drum Plug-in – Electronic Delivery 💯

Designed for both songwriters and beat producers, Steinberg 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.

Groove Agent 5 features 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!

ACOUSTIC DRUMS IN THE KIT

The Kit brings fantastic new acoustic drum sounds to Groove Agent, including Pearl kick and snare, four Yamaha Maple Custom toms, four cymbals from Zildjian, Istanbul ride and Paiste splash cymbals — all recorded with high-end Neumann microphones and outboard gear in Berlin’s Teldex Studios, including its classic reverb chamber. ‘The Kit’ comes with 47 articulations, five round robins and up to 20 velocities and, most importantly, a sound that is very versatile and can be pushed in any direction in your mix.

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

FEATURES:

• 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

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

• Operating systems (Windows): Windows 10 (64-bit), 64-bit Windows 11 Version 21H2 (or higher)
• Operating systems (Mac): macOS Mojave, macOS Catalina, macOS Big Sur, macOS Monterey
• Apple silicon–based Mac: Rosetta 2 App, Native App
• Display resolution minimum at 100% UI scaling: 1366 x 768
• Display resolution recommended: 1920 x 1080
• Plug-in format (Win): VST 3, AAX
• Plug-in format (Mac): AAX, AU, VST 3
• CPU minimum (Windows): 64-bit Intel or AMD multi-core
• CPU recommended (Windows): Intel i5 or faster
• RAM minimum: 4 GB
• RAM recommended: 8 GB
• Hard disk free space: 35 GB
• Internet connection for license activation, installer download, account sign up and product registration