Steinberg Groove Agent 2 Manual

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1977 Hard Rock
I grew up listening to The Beatles in the early seventies. After that I 
was a young soul without a home, listening to whatever was on the ra-
dio, but I never found “my thing”. Then, when I was sixteen, someone 
gave me a black album from a band I’d never heard of, and I was just 
blown away by the intro of “Hells bells” starting up their album “Back 
in black”.
Yepp, I became a hardrocker!! So here you have some steady and 
heavy drums for anyone with...

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1978 TexMex
I once played a song to Sven with a strange, loose kind of drumming 
together with bass, piano and slide guitar. It sounded a bit like a not-
so-very-well-rehearsed-gig in a small restaurant somewhere on the 
borderline between Texas and Mexico. “This is very weird and very 
cool”, Sven said. “We have to include this in Groove Agent“. “Ok!”. JS
1979 Basic Hip-Hop
This style was inspired by early Hip-Hop and the way it sounded in the 
early digital drum machine era. LW...

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1981 Elektro
My intention here was to create a style that sounds like an analog 
drum machine programmed for early synth-pop tunes. It’s not an 808 
or a 909 but a totally new “box” with retro and electronic sounds. LW
* Vintage FR-3
Original rhythms from a very old drum machine. Slow Rock x 3 (“home” 
tempo: 80 BPM). Samba x 4 (110). Rhumba x 3 (130). Beguine x 4 
(130). Mambo x 4 (140). Bossanova x 3 (145). Rock’n Roll x 4 (160). 
There were no fills in this machine, so...

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* Meek Ballad
Follow me back to the early 80s. This could be the next great thing… 
The slowly evolving groove adds a few more programmed hits on ev-
ery level, giving you a fair chance to find just the desired complexity. 
The style was created by adding each instrument one by one, just as it 
was in the childhood of these legendary “rhythm composers”. The 
meek shall inherit the earth. NE
* Axis Y
Back in the 80s, people had ugly hair cuts, pink jackets and played on 
hexagonal...

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1984 Arena
During the glory days of the 80s, the hardrock guys wore tight pants, 
sprayed their long hair and stole make-up from their girlfriends. There 
is no doubt that they really could play drums though – hard and dis-
tinctive. Since the music should be hard and loud, the dynamic has 
pretty much just one level – louder!
The fills are very typical for those drummers, intense, distinctive and 
almost composed sometimes. PS
* HM Straight
HM Straight and HM Triplets are...

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* Progressive
Here’s a rather technical style with a lot of busy fills. “Progressive” is a 
mixture of the sound of new progressive styles and some old progres-
sive bands back in the 80s. Certain levels were recorded in various 
odd meters and played over a loop of four bars. Don’t get lost! MEB
1985 World Ethno
Take one big, wide pad, one fretless bass and one electric guitar play-
ing 8ths through a delay unit, and you’ll find yourself in a “world/ethno” 
kind of ambience,...

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1989 Westcoast
This is the beat many drummers would play if you told them to just 
cruise at 98 Bpm. A straight “perfect-day-for-going-to-the-beach” 
groove with influences from modern gospel music and contemporary 
pop/rock beats. FvW
1990 Mini Works
All the sounds in this style come from the legendary Mini, built by a 
very clever guy called Moog. Every sound is note-off dependant. This 
means that the important note-off events become tempo-independent. 
Mini Works is...

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1994 Trip-Hop
This is a trip to the darker side of Trip-Hop. Picture yourself in a spooky 
attic late at night, on your knees looking for an old photo album in a 
worn chest. Suddenly the room comes to life, the floor squeaks and 
wooden toys start playing in a slow, rhythmic groove. What next? Get 
into the groove or run for your life! W
* Bristol Trip
Portishead was one of the bands that popularized Trip Hop. They 
loved to play their songs live with an acoustic drum kit and a...

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1998 Hip Hop
Groovy, fat and heavy Hip-Hop with a modern sound in contrast to the 
Basic Hip-Hop style. It’s been programmed to sound a little “off” in the 
beat with a nice swing to it. Closely related to Modern RnB. New, fresh 
kick, snare and effects noises were designed especially for this style. LW
1999 2-Step
A very tiny and fast affair with high pitched sounds. There’s a slight 
swing factor in this mixture of 2-Step, Garage and early synth-pop. LW
2000 Tribal...

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2003 Mini Club
Again, a Moog-only built up sound bank. And again 5 different grooves 
with 5 complexity levels each. This style will hopefully find its way to the 
floor of the future dance club. Try the note-off dependant sounds, too! 
Every sound slot has to be active to make these rhythms complete. 
There are no special percussion add-ons in this one. Original groove 
was made in 120 BPM with absolutely no ambience, but personally I 
like the full ambience version just as much,...