HALion’s massive update is done, I guess it’s GA’s turn next👍
I am not buying anything more until this licensing and activation manager stuff gets sorted out.
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Haven’t you successfully transitioned to the current steinberg licensing system?
Yes, i have. but it took my a good few weeks to sort out the weirdness with GA and the media bay and Mac due to strange permission issues of the way the new installer works. It’s very unusual. I have never had these problems with GA in the past or these sorts of problems with any other commercial music product I own.
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That must’ve been tough
I’m glad you were able to get your problem resolved.
It’s very confusing when a problem like this occurs with software you use at work.
je confirme les mêmes problèmes depuis déjà cubase pro 12 parfois les sons ne se télécharge pas pourtant
What specifically are you hoping to see in Groove Agent 6?
For me, my feature request priorities (as numbered) are as follows:
- Various drum synthesis “algorithms” for creating synthetic kicks, snares, hats, toms, percussion, and FX.
- Ability to create single kits that contain more than 16 sounds that can be played across an external MIDI keyboard as well as sequenced internally within the kit. 16 sounds per kit is too limited, IMO.
- Loop slice function that time stretches the “tails” of individual slices while maintaining the attack transients of each slice. This way there is no gap between slices when the beat is slowed down. Basically a much better sounding version of what the old Propellerheads ReCycle is doing (that doesn’t involve time stretching at all but insteads uses a process whereby the tail of each slice is reversed and then crossfaded into the original tail and then faded out to lengthen each slice).
Btw, how do I add the “feature-request” tag to this post?
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Is it good to buy Groove Agent 5 now? Or should I wait for Groove Agent 6?
I don’t think anyone knows if or when GA6 might be released. there are a lot of other companies in the drum VI market space. so who knows.
Pardon? That’s already possible. There’s 8x16 cells available per single kit.
It’s just that you can’t see more than 16 cells at once - and yes, I wish there’d be an alternate view mode, allowing me to see more cells at a glance (kinda Battery style), that’d make lotsa things easier, especially when working with sliced beats containing more than 16 slices. It’s becoming quite annoying having to switch pages all the time with those.
Not to diminish your worthy feature request, but have you considered dropping down the keyboard visual? It’s not showing banks, but at least you can see all 128 keys boppin’ about.
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Sure, been doing that already. Along with MIDI follow it’s defenitely not too bad of a thing to use (in fact, I usually don’t even need visual control once I have a MIDI keyboard connected) - but still, when playing back a sliced loop, the pads are simply offering better visual control about what pad you’d like to edit.
Anyhow, as I’m still pretty new to GA, I might discover some things easing my “pain”.
But then, having tons of cells/pads visible simultaneously is something I really loved with Battery. Often I simply had a bunch of percussive, almost randomized “blibs and blobs” patches opened, allowing me to very quickly fool around.
Having said that, another wish of mine would be that one could change the sample drag’n’drop behaviour, namely so multiple dragged samples would not create layers per pad but spread over multiple pads. That’s another thing I often did in Battery. I have a whole ton of folders with rather complete kits in them (heaps of obscure drum machines from the free mega pack offered by Reverb, absolutely worth grabbing, plus a nice collection of someone named “Audiopervert”, which you should as well still be able to find, plus the kb6 ones, also free and great, etc…). In Battery, I would just throw them in all at once and then re-position things to pretty much suit the GM standard. Doing it one sample at a time defenitely is more time consuming.
Oh: In case this is already possible, pretty please correct me!
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groove agent n offre pas la possibilitee de creer ses propres styles, de facon à avoir des intros, des breaks, des fins.
Each cell having the ability to us 3rd party vst fx, Like Maschine.
I almost always use Groove Agent for my projects, but Choice of effects is currently limited. Technically you could route the audio out and process there (Which is what I currently do). But being able to save custom kits already processed would be golden.
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Dragging and dropping multiple samples onto multiple pads is already possible in GA5. When you drag the samples over a pad, there are three drop zones: top, middle, and bottom. The top zone adds the sample as a layer, allowing multiple samples to be triggered together. The middle zone replaces the existing sample on the pad. The bottom zone spreads the samples across multiple pads. To avoid rearranging them later, rename the samples beforehand by adding a number indicating their desired position, e.g., 01 Kick, 02 Snare, 03 CHH, 04 OHH, etc.
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Thank you (I found that out myself by now already, but still…)! Very useful.
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A song mode like the one in GEIST would be nice. A way to visually arrange various patterns into a song and use the multiple outs to record it into your DAW.
Steinberg announced today that it is discontinuing its technical support for the following products as of July 1, 2025.
- Absolute 5
- HALion 6
- HALion Sonic 3
Maybe some new VI-s are coming … ? GA, Halion, … ??
We can only hope.
GA is the pride and joy of every project I work on.
Halion 7 is still pretty new. I believe it was released in 2023.
I’d give Halion about 2 more years until there is v8.
They should realy spend thought on some creater tools for people to develop there own librarys and sell them without licencing. All that is needed is free player to load them. This would bring in business for the Halion line of products. A completly new demographic of customers.
NI Kontakt built it’s entire business model off it.. Looks like it worked pretty well.
I’d like to say I use Halion 7 Alot, but I find myself using Kontkt 8 for Sound creation, only because I have more options for source material. Steinberg should ulock the doors, to bring more awarmess to this powerfull piece of software.
Same could be said with UVI Falcon. I own atleast 80% of thier entire catalog of products, but they also will not let creators create and distribute there own personal librarys without permission or partnership.
Lets cross our fingers for an updated GA.
This already exists.
Halion Sonic is a free player to load libraries/instruments, and information on creating Halion instruments using full Halion may be found here, among many other places: