Steinberg Groove Agent 2 Operation Manual
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Groove Agent 2 English The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not rep- resent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The software described by this document is subject to a License Agreement and may not be copied to other media. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permission by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. All product and company names...
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Groove Agent English 3 ENGLISH Table of Contents 4Welcome! 6How do I use Groove Agent? 7What is Groove Agent? 7Register Groove Agent! 8The Steinberg Key 10 System requirements (PC version) 10 Installing Groove Agent (PC version) 11 System requirements (Mac version) 11 Installing Groove Agent (Mac version) 12 Activating the Steinberg Key 13 Setting up Groove Agent as a VST instrument in your host application 14 Setting up Groove Agent as a DXi2 instrument 15 Using Groove Agent in an AU compatible...
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Groove Agent 4 English Welcome! In early 2002, a member of our Swedish VST forum suggested that someone should create a modern-day drum machine VST instrument. Just like in the old days, when drum machines offered exotic musical styles like Rumba and Cha-Cha, this baby would be able to play a huge number of styles. And with today’s 24 bit audio technology, velocity layers, real ambience recordings and an easy to use control panel, what could go wrong? A year later it was time for Groove...
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Groove Agent English 5 ENGLISH So why not skip the boring parts of life and concentrate on the inter- esting bits! I personally consider song-writing to be the finest craft of all, and Groove Agent 2 is designed to help anyone who needs drums in their music; instant drums to keep the creative flow. Computer tools can’t replace real humans, no more in music programs than in other software. We’ve done our best in maintaining the human touch in Groove Agent 2 by asking real musicians to...
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Groove Agent 6 English How do I use Groove Agent? You can use Groove Agent as stand-alone application or together with a host application, a sequencer program. If your sequencer supports VST instruments, then you can use Groove Agent. Here’s how to get started: 1. Prepare a track and load Groove Agent. 2. Select a style or a sub-style using the top slider in Groove Agent (see page 30). Wait while it loads its sound data. 3. Click the Run button and Groove Agent starts playing....
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Groove Agent English 7 ENGLISH What is Groove Agent? Technically speaking, Groove Agent uses thousands of custom de- signed MIDI patterns created by Swedish top musicians. These pat- terns trigger samples especially recorded for this instrument. That’s basically it! The Timeline slider allows you to choose a musical style or sub-style and its associated drum kit. Some of the kits are acoustic, others are electronic. The Complexity slider provides you with increasing degrees of advanced play....
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Groove Agent 8 English The Steinberg Key ❐ Please read the following section before installing the Groove Agent software. Included with the Groove Agent package, you will find an activation code (not to be confused with the serial number) for the Steinberg Key (sometimes referred to as a “dongle”), a hardware copy protec- tion device that is part of the Groove Agent copy protection scheme. Groove Agent will not run if there is no Steinberg Key and if this key hasn’t been properly...
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Groove Agent English 9 ENGLISH The Steinberg Key is, in fact, a little computer on which your Stein- berg software licenses are stored. All hardware-protected Steinberg products use the same type of key, and you can store more than one license on one key. Also, licenses can (within certain limits) be trans- ferred between keys – which is helpful, e.g. if you want to sell a piece of software. ❐ If you already own a Steinberg Key (e.g. for Cubase or Nuendo), you can load your Groove Agent...
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Groove Agent 10 English System requirements (PC version) To run Groove Agent you’ll need: •A PC with a 800 MHz Pentium or Athlon processor (1.4 GHz or faster recom- mended). •384 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended). •450 MB of hard disk space. •Windows® XP Home or Professional. •Windows MME compatible audio hardware (an ASIO compatible audio card is recommended). •If you want to use Groove Agent as a plug-in, you’ll need Cubase or Nuendo (version 1.5 or higher) or another VST 2.0 or DXi 2...