User Manual

Groove Agent 3
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Jamming with Groove Agent 3
There’s no better way to kill inspiration than to feed it with a static
drum loop. Sooo unlike a live drummer! But with the right side con-
trols, and especially the new functionality of the Auto Fill knob, it’s
now easier than ever to set up Groove Agent as a live drummer to jam
along with.
Start by choosing a pattern of your liking. You can use Groove Agent
or Special Agent for this. By pressing the Random button, our drum-
mer will randomly play adjacent complexity levels. If you set the Auto
Fill control to a 4, 8, 12 or 16 position, you’ll hear authentic fills with
regular intervals. Finally, activating Random Fill makes sure that every
time there’s a fill it’s a different one.
You can set up a similar jamming scheme with Percussion Agent too.
Just make sure there are a few Random elements going on. The Ran-
dom Complexity button is your friend here.
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.
With the introduction of Dual Mode, it’s even easier to manually add
stuff on top of an existing Groove Agent, Special Agent or Percussion
Agent groove. With two modules on screen, it’s easier than ever to
get a good overview and explore the possibilities.