Steinberg Groove Agent 2 Operation Manual
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Groove AgentEnglish 73 ENGLISH 80 or 160 BPM, what’s the correct tempo? Normally, we decide a certain style’s tempo by defining where the downbeats and backbeats are. A rhythm that goes boom-chick-boom- chick probably counts 1-2-3-4 at the same rate. In most popular west- ern music the kick (bass drum) plays the downbeats (1 and 3) and the snare drum plays the backbeats (2 and 4). As with all living things, this rule has its exceptions. Reggae has a half tempo feel built in to itself by nature. The reggae style we’ve included in Groove Agent actually plays the backbeat on the third beat of the bar. It simply seemed sensible to specify its favorite tempo range to 130-150 BPM rather than half those figures. This is also true for the cajun style. On the other hand, styles like Tom-Toms, Backbeat and Train Beat are sort of double speed by nature. Here, the Train Beat style works best somewhere in the 100 BPM region. More practical than 200, don’t you think? Finding a suitable style for your song So, you are working on a song in 104 BPM and now you want to know what styles have a suitable tempo? Take a look at the tempo map. It provides a rough guide to suitable tempo ranges for the various styles. Jamming with Groove Agent You may feel the urge to play a drum instrument yourself. Perhaps you have a much better idea for a kick drum pattern than what’s been pro- grammed into Groove Agent or you may want to add a very special tambourine rhythm. If so, please feel free to do just that! If you mute, say, the kick drum, Groove Agent won’t play the kick drum pattern. You can add your own kick drum playing from your MIDI key- board, and if you’re recording the MIDI output of Groove Agent, your playing will end up in that newly created MIDI part, too.
Groove Agent 74 English Smooth handling We are the first to agree that some of the knobs in this instrument are small, very small. When tweaking the sounds, a knob can suddenly jump from one position to another. Not very comfortable. ❐If your sequencer lets you choose what sort of mouse movement controls knobs, you should try “linear” (up and down) mode. This generally gives a better and more predictable feel and handling. Controlling Groove Agent from a MIDI keyboard There are situations where you want to control Groove Agent via a remote MIDI device such as a keyboard. We have prepared a scheme, so that almost everything you can do directly on screen can also be carried out remotely. Here’s a complete description. •MIDI notes B0-A3 (35-69) play the internal sounds according to the keyboard map shown on page 46. These drum sounds are available at all times. •If you control Groove Agent on MIDI channel 10, the keyboard be- comes compatible with standard General MIDI (GM) mapping. •MIDI note A#3 (70) doubles as the Accent button. It also kills drum- ming for as long as it’s held; play a syncope and hold this key for one quarter note for very realistic behavior. Please note that this key has better timing than the Accent button on screen. •MIDI note B3 (71) stops Groove Agent when it’s running. •Moving the modulation wheel or using CC 66 triggers a fill. •When controlling Groove Agent on an odd numbered channel MIDI notes C4-C6 (72-96) serve dual purposes. Pressing any of these keys starts Groove Agent. C4 selects complexity level A, G5 selects level 15 etc. If you hit a key harder than velocity 90, you will trigger a fill. •When controlling Groove Agent on an even numbered channel the white MIDI keys C4-B4 (72-83) are used to mute and un-mute the 8 individual instrument groups. The black keys above C4 (C#4-A#5 or 73-94) select memory locations 1-10 for you.
Groove AgentEnglish 75 ENGLISH •The new right-click menu “MIDI Mute Key Mode” will provide you with three modes for group handling: – Toggle: Like before, white keys in the range C4-C5 switch instrument groups 1-8 on and off. – Velocity Switch: Notes with high velocity (>64) mute groups, notes with low velocity un-mute groups. – While Held: Groups are temporarily muted (or un-muted, depending on their current status) while notes are held. If you have an extra modulation wheel or dedicated controller/s on your keyboard, you can use these CC’s to control Groove Agent: MIDI CC Destination Please note that the controllers mentioned here may also be handy when editing Groove Agent drum parts in your sequencer. You can get one level deeper in detail when controlling Groove Agent via MIDI. These commands double as edit controls for each of the 8 output groups on MIDI channel 1-8: CC Destination 2 and 65 Snare/Sidestick selection 3 and 64 Half Tempo Feel 7Overall volume 76 Host BPM (60 + value) if your host does not support tempo sync 77 Humanize 78 Shuffle 83 Vintage on/off 91 Ambience Prg chng Memory select 1-10
Groove Agent 76 English MIDI CC Destination Contact, Internet For more info, latest news, and to get into contact with the Groove Agent staff, please visit our website: www.bornemark.se. Credits Concept and realization: Sven Bornemark Programming: Paul Kellett / mda Design and graphics: Wirebird Acoustic sound design: Per “Worra” Larsson/SampleTekk, Sven Bornemark and Mats-Erik Björklund Recording engineer: Jens Bogren and Rickard Bengtsson at Studio Kuling, Örebro Session drummer: Mats-Erik Björklund Electronic sounds from Primesounds and our private collections. Addi- tional samples from the studios of Daniel Sunebring, Lars Westin and Wirebird. Mini sounds created by Dan Bornemark at Studio McBuddha. EMT plate reverb recorded at Tambourine Studios, Malmö CC Destination 69 Mute 70 Vel Offset 71 Tune 72 Ambience 73 Volume 74 Output 75 Decay
Groove AgentEnglish 77 ENGLISH Musicians: Per Almered, Roger Berg, Mats-Erik Björklund, Dan Borne- mark, Sven Bornemark, Mats Dagerlind, Nils Erikson, Marshall Karlsson, Ronny Milianowicz, Per Samuelsson, Michael Spork, Jens Ståhlstierna, Daniel Sunebring, Figge von Wachenfeldt, Lars Westin and Wirebird Audio mastering: Uffe Börjesson Project management: Helge Vogt Manual: Sven Bornemark and Mats Dagerlind with kind assistance of the Steinberg Manuals Department Throughout the production period we have received lots of help from the Steinberg staff in Hamburg. You guys are too many to mention, so THANK YOU ALL! We would like to thank the following companies for their friendly sup- port: MusicMania/Feedback Music (Malmö) and Audiomaster (Örebro). Last but not least… Thank you, HeavenlyHansson, for suggesting this instrument. And thank you, Per “Worra” Larsson of SampleTekk, for being such a patient audio editor. And Mats-Erik, I’m so grateful you had the knowledge, musicianship and energy to spend on this instrument. Now, finally, you have the fine sample-sets of your own drums you always wanted!
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