About The Groove Agent Styles - Steinberg GROOVE AGENT 3 Mode D'emploi

About the Groove Agent Styles

Here's a short description of each style, as expressed by the musi-
cians themselves. As you can see, we've had to abandon the idea of
sorting styles chronologically. We have so many styles now that a new
sorting method became necessary. We hope that the introduction of
genres (categories) will prove helpful.
Those styles that were new in Groove Agent 2 are marked with an as-
terisk (*) and the new Groove Agent 3 styles have two asterisks (**) in
front of their names. To assist you in finding styles that suit your music,
we've added a "T" after the names of those styles that have a triplet or
swing feel.
Jazz
Swing (T)
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 pro-
grammed 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 patterns often used in this type of drumming. RB
Jazz Trio (T)
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 com-
bined it with my own inspiration from brush greats such as Buddy
Rich, Louie Bellson, Jo Jones and all the lessons taken from brush leg-
end Ed Thigpen (known from the Oscar Peterson Trio among others).
You should know that I don't agree 100% with Sven about what hap-
pens when we push the sidestick button! It's a "hire one drummer –
get two" effect and that's not so bad, after all! RB
Groove Agent 3
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