Making Beats out of beats!

 

Groove Agent 5

 

First of al, it's a 64bit vst2. A very flexible plug in, with up to 32 independent stereo outputs. It sounds like a joke, but in each cell you can mix up to 30 different samples, each with independent start/end position / midi trigger speed. pitch/amplitude envelopes and FX are part of the global cell (up to 48 PADs). No builtin seqencer. right! died with some bugs, but it doesn't make it unusable

 

Im looking at RMV torrents and version 5 is 17mb, while the last version 4 is 750. Is that just samples?


do any of these have easy integration with Push?

 

Yeah, maybe it is a bit dated but it's one that i keep coming back to, like a comfy pair of slippers. lol

 

Nice! I hope you like it.

 

Well, it's dated in the sense that the 909 sequencer is dated. Neither is not the most full featured sequencer for sure, but both allow for a ridiculously fast way of working.

Things to try out, first the complete MIDI implementation, including sending out midi notes to your DAW (triggering samples and playing with the fillrate is wicked fun). Then "Select by MIDI note" and assigning some controls makes for a nice editing / automating / jamming style of working. Things to automate: The pitch modulation on the osc side, esp with the FM or random pitch modes, and then the attack on the noise with the "modulated noise envelope mode", but most importantly the vel response amounts on the right hand side.

This is all obviously personal preference, but outside dedicated hardware it's the fastest way to work with electronic beats.

 

XLN addictive but 65146168 samples from sister site + Live drum rack is way more flexible.

then layer everything with Superior 3 drums. bounce out everything plus the Near, Mid, Far ambiences from with it, compress the f out of the 3 ambience with Kush Goldplate (and its plate).

Blend to taste. Best electronic drum ever.

 

Off topic:
I was always fascinated by the sweet and fat sound of SDSV, I just loved Simmons drums, many years ago I stupidly lost an SDS8 because I wanted an SDSV that never came and in anyway was already difficult to get.

When AlyJames came up with his VSDSX i purchased it immediately, it's a great vst emulation, only who lived through the 80's can understand how this drum carved in the music of that period.

SDSV

 

This thread got me trying Microtonic and I love it. Thanks all

 

Same here. This thread has been a goldmine. Thanks everyone

 

Whatever you do Don't go to the Patternarium

https://soniccharge.com/patternarium#/26/Polyspone-Mastoric


and especially dont hit the download button on the beats you liked

and DEFINITELY dont copy the file into your Microtonic presets folder

 

For hardstyle, RAW kick is a great plugin. Presets are good as well

 

Very cluttered and unintuitive interface = not very straightforward user experience. I wish Steinberg would embrace current UX & UI best practices instead of designing 2005 looking Frankenstein's

 

Also don't ever.... put a copy of permut8 on the ouput buss of mTonic.......

@Hazen as a Cubase user I would like to love Groove Agent, but your right the GUI is mince.

 

Yeah, it has all the necessary features, but its such PITA to use. Longterm Cubase user, but had to realize that Steinberg is stuck in the early 2000s in the way they approach UX. It seems that a straightforward, uncluttered workflow is not on their design priority list.

 

this is some premium glitch, brother.
I love doing this to synth lines too

 

Not sure how that one passed me by, will be giving it a workout. Can't beat a good mangle in the morning, as I say!

 

Seriously. i fucking hate searching for samples. Its god awful. I want to start just having sound design sessions for just kick and snare synthesis