About The Styles - VST Groove Agent 2 Mode D'emploi

About the styles

Here's a short description of each style, as expressed by the musicians
themselves. Those styles that are new to Groove Agent 2 are marked
with an asterisk (*). Please note that while the original 54 Groove Agent
styles were closely related to years and the timeline, the new styles are
not related to any years in particular. Example: "Vintage FR-3" is a sub
style to "1981 Elektro", not because it has a particular 1981 flavour,
but because those old analogue machines are electronic devices.
1950 Swing
Here's a style used for jazz and big band playing. It's hard to cover all
the possibilities in a field as complex as swing/big band drumming, so I
chose a straight, forward view for this one. The style was programmed
around 144 BPM. It's divided into two sections: the first half in "2", the
second in "four on the floor" in order to match the different bass pat-
terns often used in this type of drumming. RB
1951 Samba
This Samba style is a mixture between the authentic Samba (when
played on the drum kit) and the Samba style that many jazz and fusion
drummers use in their playing. MEB
1952 Jazz Trio
The lost art of brushes! Not many people these days know how to use
brushes "the right way"! It's one thing to own a pair, another to be able
to play them. A third issue is to make a VST instrument handle them
convincingly.
We've implemented the "brush stroke" in Groove Agent and combined
it with my own inspiration from brush greats such as Buddy Rich, Louie
Bellson, Jo Jones and all the lessons taken from brush legend Ed Thig-
pen (known from the Oscar Peterson Trio among others). You should
know that I don't agree 100% with Sven about what happens when we
push the sidestick button! It's a "hire one drummer – get two" effect
and that's not so bad, after all! RB
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