Can you create some jazz patterns? perhaps an expansion pack? I installed it today and there are a lot of empty styles and substyles. Maybe I installed it wrong but when I click “all agents” , “all instrument sets” I get 243 programs and 50 multi-programs. zero traditional jazz or latin jazz.
Do you think its my installation or did you not include the jazz styles? GA3 worked pretty well for practicing and banging out a basic 32 bar jazz tune.
Groove Agent 4 cannot load any kits from GA3. We have created the library for GA4 from scratch with new technologies and brought the sounds on a totally new level compared to GA3. But the consequence is that GA4 is not compatible to the kits in GA3.
Thanks for your feedback! We are already planning the first expansion packs. There will be more drum kits and also style expansion packs for Groove Agent. And Jazz is definitely on our list.
One thought I had (since I do not want to be without GA3) is to install GA3, then upgrade it to GA4. Then go back and install GA3 to a different location in hopes of having both GA3 and GA4 installed on the same machine. Matthias, do you know if what I describe will work?
Hi Gerard,
Mac OS X Version 10.8 / 10.9 and Windows 7 / Windows 8.x are the supported operating systems. That means that our quality assurance team has tested Groove Agent on this systems as a stand alone application and in many different DAWs. It doesn’t mean that it won’t install on a 10.7 system, but we haven’t tested it and hence don’t support it officially. Somewhere we have to draw a line to keep the efforts for QA reasonable. That is way we are always testing and officially supporting the last two versions of Mac OS and Windows. In this case Mac OS X 10.8. and 10.9 and Windows 7 and 8.x.
There will be trial version of Groove Agent 4 later this year. Just give it a try and make up your mind.
Please Matthias, you must add some Nashville/Country styles and kits/beats/patterns to that list. You guys have friends in Nashville running Nuendo/Cubase at some great studios. If commissioned, they would surely love to help out, capturing some performances/sounds from some fantastic pro players out there… what do you think…?
Like the Jazz styles already mentioned, I’m convinced there’s a sizeable market for (modern/trad) ‘Country music’, throughout Europe and the UK for example. As well as more of the USA itself maybe…!
I was overzealous and purchased GA 4 upgrade w/ out GA 3. (Not sure how I confused Groove Agent ONE w/ Groove Agent 3) Can I split the difference when the full version is released? Or get a refund so I can purchase the full version? Very excited about the product!
Will there be a Grace Period update when the full release is announced? I have only just activated GA3 and I am hoping I will benefit from a Grace Period update.
Shoot, I could not upgrade to GA3 for years, because it was not for sale… Now I must wait about a month to put my hands on GA4. As an early owner of Groove Agent 1 (The Original) and Groove Agent 2 something seems wrong here… Won’t mind paying a little more for the a GA4 upgrade from GA2… But life is too short to have to wait about a month unnecessarily…
Yes and I did download the manual… Looks Great…