FEATURE REQUEST | Groove Agent - Phase rotation/shift for layered samples on pads

Virtual instruments Groove Agent
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  • Current Limitation: Users currently face a workflow bottleneck requiring the manual phase alignment of samples in external software prior to importing them onto pads.

  • Proposed Enhancement: It is recommended to introduce native phase rotation or phase shift controls within the pad layering interface of GA.

  • Operational Benefit: Integrating this functionality directly into the application would eliminate the need for external pre-processing, significantly streamlining the sound design workflow and improving efficiency.

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Groove Agent 6 SE has this “Invert Phase” feature already and the full Groove Agent 6 will inherit this new feature of course too. See below:

Inv Phase
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Not in Acoustic agents. or i can’t see it

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You wouldn’t need phase flip in Acoustic agents, you only need a phase flip when layering samples on pads in Beat Agent | Mode.

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While Invert phase is the old-school approach, it is very broad. Phase rotation is a bit different and could be very useful in altering/optimizing the sound of multi-layerd drums.

It could be a very interesting feature to explore in GA, especially if you developed an auto-align feature (Auto-Align Selected Layers) for Time, Phase, and Polarity individually or all at once.

Oxford Drum Gate just added these features in Ver2 (although it sounds like they have some improvements to make)

Oxford Drum Gate 2 is here - Gearspace

And of course there is the well known Sound Radix Auto-Align

Auto-Align: The Automatic Phase Alignment Plug-in | Sound Radix

It would be very cool to be able to auto-align enmasse 100 pads of multi-layerd instruments.

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I use Voxengo PHA-979 to do phase rotation if I layer low end samples/sounds.

To be honest I wouldn’t layer sounds on a pad, I would layer sounds in Cubendo 1st using proper phase rotation, then Render the results, then put the rendered file on a pad.

GA7 could add phase rotation as an option, it is something they could consider.

The issue is when you do phase rotation, you really need to be using an Oscilloscope to see the layers while aligning them, this can get quite complex if you start to add these components into GA.

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Yup for sure, but imagine being able to select a 100 pads of multi-layered instruments and doing it enmasse.

I certainly have a 100 GA kits of my own samples I haven’t done phase rotation to.

Can also just use your ears and go with what sounds better!