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Groove Agent 2

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Overview

Dozens of fresh, up-to the-minute styles and a battery of new drum sounds!

The Steinberg Groove Agent 2 Virtual Drummer offers a raft of the latest drum grooves and styles within the comfortable confines of modern DAW environments. Supports VST, DXi, Rewire, or AU plug-in formats.

27 new styles offer an array of the latest grooves in diverse flavors currently in demand such as ultra-slick R&B, Bristol Trip Hop, Old Skool HipHop, Retro Rock, roof-raising Punk, and grinding Grunge grooves. Providing the kerosene are the 9 new drum kits. The all-new top-quality studio kit offers a highly polished, refined sound that's widely usable for many modern pop and rock productions. Other kit highlights include painstakingly re-created retro drum synths, ultra-hip noisy lo-fi drums, and a diamond-hard metal kit, as well as added percussive sounds.

Other refinements of the Groove Agent 2 drum machine software include added output buses, with up to 8 stereo outputs now available within the virtual mixer of the host application. It's now also possible to bypass the internal sample playback engine and to use Groove Agent as a MIDI player that triggers external samples.

The GUI has also been overhauled, with added scales and easier access to vital controls. The new solo button for every group makes it easier to focus quickly on one group of sounds while tweaking and mixing. The Steinberg Groove Agent 2 also offers a new Save to MIDI file feature, which stores Groove Agent's rhythm output to a MIDI file for detailed editing, regardless of the DAW application hosting Groove Agent 2.

Features

  • Over 70 musical styles (each with its own drum style patterns) programmed by top musicians
  • 25 complexity levels in each style, including fills and half tempo feel variations
  • Combine any style with any drum kit instantly
  • Several unique drum kits plus percussion and a range of electronic drum sounds
  • 24-bit drum sounds, most of them recorded via analog tape
  • Separate dry and wet (ambience) samples
  • 8 stereo outputs and the facility to send room to one separate channel
  • User-configurable drum kits, including tweaking of sounds
  • Combine any musical style with any preset kit
  • Fine-tune the overall feel with Shuffle and Humanize controls
  • Record Groove Agent beats to MIDI track with Cubase and Nuendo or export Groove combinations to a MIDI file for further editing
  • Sample Engine Bypass to bypass internal Sound Engine to save Performance
  • New solo button for every group
  • Connects to everything: VST, DXi, AU, Rewire, and standalone versions
Specs

Groove Agent 2 Specifications:

  • System Requirements
  • PC Required:
  • Pentium/Athlon 800MHz
  • 384MB RAM
  • Windows MME compatible audio hardware
  • Windows XP Home or XP Professional
  • Display Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels
  • For using Groove Agent 2 as a plug-in, a VST2 or DXi2 compatible Host is required
  • Steinberg Key and USB component connector required
  • 450MB free HD space for Content
  • Recommended:
  • Pentium / Athlon 1.4GHz or faster
  • 512MB RAM
  • Display Resolution 1152 x 864 pixels, dual monitor setup
  • ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended
  • Macintosh Required:
  • Power Mac G4 867MHz
  • 384MB RAM
  • OS X Version 10.2.5 or higher
  • CoreAudio compatible audio hardware
  • Display Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels
  • For using Groove Agent 2 as a plug-in, a VST2 or AU compatible Host is required
  • Steinberg Key and USB component connector required
  • 450MB free HD space for Content
  • Recommended:
  • Power Mac G5 Dual 1.25 GHz or faster
  • 512MB RAM
  • Display Resolution 1152 x 864 pixels
  • dual monitor setup
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