Generally well played and well recorded drum samples.Emulates the nuances of a real drummer without any complicated programming on behalf of the user.Installation takes around 300MB of hard drive space and is from a copy-protected CD-ROM. While Groove Agent doesn't demand a cutting-edge computer, it does take up lots of memory, so the minimum recommended is 512MB. Groove Agent runs on any recent Mac (OS 9 to 10.2) or PC there's no Audio Units version, so Logic OS X users will either have to wait or try a VST-to-AU wrapper. This is important, as Groove Agent includes a variable ambience control that uses this information to move from a dry drum sound to a very live room without using synthetic reverb. In order to provide plenty of sonic flexibility, the drums were recorded simultaneously with close mics, overheads, distant mics at 2 metres and distant mics at 7 metres. Unlike a drum machine, Groove Agent can be played interactively, with a MIDI keyboard used to switch between related drum patterns of differing complexity, or to initiate fills and so on.
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In some respects, Groove Agent is like a software drum machine, but rather than using REX file samples like Virtual Guitarist, it uses separate drum samples arranged into patterns by 13 different musicians specialising in different musical styles. All the acoustic drum sounds were recorded in Sweden by top drummer Mats-Erik Bjorklund, whereas electronic sounds came from Primesounds in Stockholm. Groove Agent is a VST Instrument designed to do for drums what Virtual Guitarist did for guitar parts and like Virtual Guitarist, it was produced by Sven Bornemark in collaboration with some great musicians and rather clever programmers.
If you don't fancy programming drums from scratch, but you find pre-recorded drum loops too inflexible, perhaps what you need is Steinberg's virtual drummer.
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