Make your beats with the best creative drum software — Groove Agent
Designed for both songwriters and beat producers, 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.

• Exceptional-quality acoustic drums and percussion
• Banging electronic drums for Trap, EDM and more
• New Decompose feature for your own signature drum sound
• Over 1,000 MIDI grooves for a wide range of different genres

What you can do with Groove Agent

• Beatmaking
  A wide array of hard-hitting drum kits from top electronic producers like Audeka, Rawtekk, zKlang or Joe Ford provide the fattest beats.
• Songwriting
  High-quality acoustic drums with many articulations can be combined with MIDI grooves for fast and inspired songwriting.
• Jamming
  Jam mode creates immediate backing tracks, including intro, fills and ending — perfect for practice, improvising and sketching ideas.
• Beat editing
  Like a step sequencer for drums, the pattern editor lets you create complex rhythms in perfect timing, simply by clicking in the grid.
• Live Sampling
  Record analog drum synthesizers, acoustic drums or any other audio via Groove Agent, manipulate the sound and build your own kits.
• Sound Design
  Creative effects, layering up to four different kits and features like the new Decompose let you easily create your own signature sound.

New in version 5
A new standard of dynamic acoustic drums; 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!

New 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
Create new exciting drum sounds with changing the pitch envelope of a sample. This is especially great for EDM music if you want to create drops and build ups or if you want to do pitch adjustments of pre-recorded drums. Combined with the new Decompose you can also modulate the pitch of tone and noise separately – a very unique approach in working with drum sounds.

Overview of every new feature in Groove Agent 5

• 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
• 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

Requirements

• Windows 10 / 7 / 8 (64-bit)Download size: 32 GB
• macOS High Sierra / macOS SierraDownload size: 32 GB
• 4 GB minimum required memory
• 8 GB RAM or more recommended
• 35 GB free storage space

Manual

Steinberg Download Assistant.