Steinberg Groove Agent 3 Virtual Drummer

Steinberg Groove Agent 3 is a plug-in or standalone application that provides ready-to-go drum rhythms with only a few mouse clicks. The program can play the most popular and influential styles from the past fifty years of music history inside most host application. Based on a huge library of quality drum and percussion samples, most of which were recorded especially to analog tape, the software places a top studio drummer on call.

Creating a drum track couldn't be easier - the user chooses a music style and a drum kit. There are settings for the amount of drum room ambience, fills and half-time breaks required for the track. Groove Agent 3 can play at over two dozen different complexity levels, allowing the user to create the right mood with a rhythm track simply by moving a slider. Volume, ambience, decay, tuning and velocity response can be adjusted individually for each instrument.

Two new "players" (called agents) have been added to the original player. Special Agent adds a realistic sounding studio drummer, complete with additional acoustic drum kits, while Percussion Agent specializes in percussive grooves and beats. A Dual Mode allows two of the three agents to be active simultaneously. The rhythm output of Groove Agent 3 can be saved to an external MIDI file, irrespective of which application happens to be hosting the plug-in. The application runs smoothly with just about every standard host.

Features

Complete drum grooves in 123 musical styles, played by professional studio drummers

Automatically syncs up to the song tempo

Numerous variation options (twenty-five complexity levels for each style, fill and halftime)

Enormous pool of drum kits, percussion and electronic drum sounds in 24-bit sound quality

Tremendous flexibility and numerous editing options - freely configurable user kits, ambiance, shuffle and humanize, twelve stereo outputs, MIDI file export and more

Special Agent module features fifteen complete live drumming styles, each containing seventy-five different performances

Percussion Agent module with eight groups of recorded percussion grooves with hundreds of percussion performances

Dual Mode combines the creative power of two Agents playing side by side within the same VSTi

User sample import feature (WAV/AIFF) for creating custom kits

Realistic rolls and paradiddles achieved via alternating hits for each drum on every note

Nine-band EQ and compressor for each of the twelve stereo outputs

Cross-platform compatible and supports VST, DXi, AU and Rewire plug-in formats. Also functions in standalone mode

Specifications

Mac

Power Mac G5 2GHz or Intel Core Solo 1.5 minimum
OS X 10.4
1GB RAM
CoreAudio compatible audio hardware required
DVD drive for installation
4GB free hard drive space
Steinberg Key (not included) and USB port
Internet connection for license activation
For usage as plug-in, a VST (VST 2.3 or higher) or AU compatible host (AU hosting is compatible with Logic 7.1.1)
Rewire compatible host for usage as Rewire slave device

PC

Intel/AMD Processor 2GHz minimum
Windows XP Home or Professional
1GB RAM
Windows MME compatible audio hardware required (ASIO compatible audio hardware for low latency operation)
DVD drive for installation
4GB free hard drive space
Steinberg Key (not included) and USB port
Internet connection for license activation
For plug-in usage, a VST (VST 2.3 or higher) or DXi2 compatible host
Rewire compatible host for usage as Rewire slave device