Steinberg Groove Agent 2 Plug-In

Complete with dozens of fresh, up-to the-minute styles and a battery of quality new drum sounds, Groove Agent 2 offers a raft of the latest drum grooves and styles within the comfortable confines of modern DAW environments supporting the VST, DXi, Rewire or AU plug-in formats.

Groove Agent 2 comes with 50% more musical styles and drum kits. The 27 new styles offer an array of the latest grooves in diverse flavors currently in demand such as ultra-slick RnB, Bristol Trip Hop, Old Skool HipHop, Retro Rock, roof-raising Punk and grinding Grunge grooves. Providing the kerosene for the 27 explosive new styles are the 9 new drum kits. The all-new top-quality studio kit offers a highly polished, refined sound while being widely usable for many modern pop and rock productions. Other kit highlights include painstakingly recreated retro drum synths, ultra-hip noisy lofi drums, a diamond-hard metal kit as well as added percussive sounds.

Other feature refinements include added output busses, 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 Groove Agent 2 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 quickly focus on one group of sounds while tweaking and mixing. 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 80 musical Styles (each with their 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 drumkit - 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 and 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 - Groove agents is able to bypass its internal Sound Engine to save Performance

New solo button for every group

Connects to everything: VST, DXi, AU, Rewire and standalone versions

Technical Info

Requires Seperate USB Key
The Steinberg Key is the key to Steinberg's world of professional audio tools. The purchase of this license key is required to run any of the new Steinberg VST instruments released after 1st January 2005, as these products will not contain a USB hardware protection device. Users already using a ?USB dongle?-protected Steinberg product are not required to purchase an extra key.

The license modules are offered in a DVD package containing the key and a CD-ROM with movies and information about current Steinberg products. Additional PDF documents provide in-depth information for further research on Steinberg's leading applications. Steinberg Key also enables users to run additional full featured demo versions of the applications that are included with every Steinberg product package. The demo versions offer a hands-on experience with Steinberg's leading applications and instruments.

Product Highlights:
No more need for multiple dongles

No extra payment for an additional dongle in each package of a VST instrument

Easy access to full featured demo versions of Steinberg's leading applications

In-depth product information on CD-ROM

PC Requirements
Pentium / Athlon 800 MHz

384 MB 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

450 MB free HD space for Content

Recommended:
Pentium / Athlon 1.4 GHz or faster

512 MB RAM

Display Resolution 1152 x 864 pixels, dual monitor setup

ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended

Macintosh Requirements
Power Mac G4 867 MHz

384 MB 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

450 MB free HD space for Content

Recommended:
Power Mac G5 Dual 1.25 GHz or faster

512 MB RAM

Display Resolution 1152 x 864 pixels

Dual monitor setup