Posted on - May 5, 2003 [at] 2:36 pm by Brad
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Groove Agent just shipped the other day. What Groove Agent is:
Groove Agent is a stunning new VSTi that provides you with ready-to-go drum rhythms in only a few mouse clicks. Groove Agent can play the hottest, most popular and influential styles from the past 50 years of music history – inside your VST host application. Based on quality drum samples most of which were recorded especially to analog tape, Groove Agent puts a top studio drummer at your fingertips.
This may be the death of music, but I really want it.
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Jakob Dorof on Groove Agent
May 5, 2003 at 9:35 pm
No way Brad. Unless you use fake drums in your songs, continue to record yourself playing the drums…It’s much more realistic and….genuine. But if you use fake drums already, by all means, buy your funky Groove-Bot.
Jakob Dorof on Groove Agent
May 5, 2003 at 10:07 pm
Hey, I just realized that you always use fake drums…
Go for the Groove-Machine, Brad!
Kajun on Groove Agent
May 8, 2003 at 5:19 pm
It’s going to be another sad Christmas in the Kajun house this year.
Paul on Groove Agent
May 22, 2003 at 4:18 pm
Anyone know if Groove Agent plays through Sonar (Dxi)??
Thanks.
Mark E.D. on Groove Agent
October 8, 2003 at 7:28 pm
Played with the demo, read a lot on the user forum site, seems like the implementation is dodgy with most hosts other than Steinberg stuff (Cubase, Nuendo, etc.). Even then, people experience troubling problems. Steinberg is blaming all the problems on all the other companys’ VST implementation. I’ve never seen so many “workarounds” for such a hyped product. I’d save my $$ until version 2 and see what happens then.
Cue Bug Police on Groove Agent
July 1, 2005 at 1:42 pm
Re: Groove Agent Steinberg – Bug Annoucement
2 Serious Bugs still in GA
BUG #!
Importing a General Midi Drum File into Cubase and the using Groove Agent
as your drum module is very frustrating. Groove Agent will not trigger many of the General Midi drum notes assigned to the pattern. GA will play the basic bass drum, snare and hi hats and maybe so cymbal crashes
but forget about any percussion that was in the imported midi drum file. The midi drum parts that are not triggered will appear in the drum and note editors so you have to cut and paste them into another track and assign another drum module to trigger these parts/sounds – very frustrating.
BUG #2
The same goes for midi drum part files generated by GA they will play just fine when the GA is running and recording the part but as soon as you set your track up for GA to play the part back again there will be missing
drum parts that show up in the editors but you will not hear them.
Conclusion:
Why Steinberg did not include a few General Midi default kits is a SERIOUS SHORTFALL
for this software. Steinberg has 0 answers or replys to my request for an explanation – I can’t believe
that of all the reviews I have read about GA no one has complained about this problem.
Cue Bug SX Sofware Police
Hubert on Groove Agent
August 26, 2008 at 7:07 pm
i have had the same problems with Ga 3 i record a track everything is there at the time but when i play it back some things are not there I’m not very happy with this at all hours and hours of not working on my music it sucks help Steinberg help