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#GROOVE AGENT 4 VS GROOVE AGENT SE 4 FULL VERSION#
As there are some kits without a dedicated Agent, the column will be empty at the top (in A-Z), but if you scroll down you’ll soon find all your Acoustic Agent SE kits (the full version of Groove Agent gives you more options). Click on the column header and the results will be ordered alphabetically (A-Z) by Agent type, click again and you reverse the order (Z-A). Scroll across until you see the Library Name column - it’s a good idea to drag this column over to the left if you wish to be able to select kits by Agent easily in the future. A kit browser window will appear which, alas, is fixed to a narrower width than is helpful. Right-click on the Beat Agent box at the top centre, and select ‘Load kit with patterns.’. Groove Agent SE4 defaults to a blank preset (no kit, no patterns), but the ‘Beat Agent’ is activated. Finding a suitable kit isn’t straightforward, as the browse-by-Agent page of Groove Agent 4 is missing in SE4, but here’s a quick way to find a kit that’s compatible with the Acoustic Agent. As I said, we’ll be examining the Acoustic Agent, which is all about tweaking the virtual performance. The different Agents can be thought of as engines for customising the patterns or samples (depending which Agent you’re using).
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Over on the right, it’s a little more complex: there’s an Edit page for the ‘Agent’ associated with the kit (more on that later), a Mixer for balancing and processing the various kit pieces, and an Options page, which we’ll explore later. There’s another bank (there are eight banks in the full version of Groove Agent) of 16 pads for MIDI loops, which ‘play’ the kit pieces, and again these are assigned a MIDI Note.
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The basics are easy to understand: on the left are eight banks of 16 pads (128 pads in total, each mapped to a different MIDI note), onto which layered kit-piece samples can be loaded, either individually or a whole kit at a time. I can’t cover everything in two pages, so it’s a topic I’ll revisit in the future. So, here’s a quick guide to creating a natural-sounding acoustic drum part using SE4’s Acoustic Agent. Several SOS forumites, though, found it confusing enough that they asked for a step-by-step guide.
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In SE4, Steinberg added the ‘Acoustic Agent’, which enables you to vary and automate the virtual drummer’s performance with ease. It’s a virtual drummer along the lines of BFD, EZ Drummer and so on, with loads of good-sounding kits, a great ‘Rhythm’ library and lots of tweakability. Why the India kit has that many more and costs less while the Jazz and the Nashville kit (~8,000 samples) have around the same.ĭoes anyone recall - were there ever any GA expansion bundle deals? I only see they regularly have the 50% off deal and these expansions are not in Absolute from what I can tell, so they would not be covered in an Absolute deal.To load a kit and set of rhythms, right-click on the Agent box, top middle, and select ‘Load Kit With Patterns.’.Ĭubase’s Groove Agent SE4 isn’t the most intuitive drum machine, but it’s well worth getting to grips with.Ĭubase’s Groove Agent SE4, bundled with version 8.0 onwards, is something of a hidden gem. I am a little confused why there is such a huge discrepancy between samples between the kits. If I understand correctly, I can load up the Indie kit and apply the MIDI files from the jazz expansion. What I don't get is the Phillps Jazz expansion has "560 MIDI files, 9500 samples" and the Indie Metro Heights expansion has "over 17,400 samples". I also like the idea of the integration with the DAW. I am looking at the Jazz expansion and the Indie one and trying out GA SE that comes with my DAW. I've quite a few of the GA drum expansions but they never see the light of day. I agree they are slightly more powerful than the NI products, although I actually think the NI abbey road stuff sounds ok. Yes - the Groove Agent expansions are not up to the standards of other drum samplers.