This thread has a lot of good suggestions, the support is pretty great.
Personally I didn’t see a huge need to update GA5, I’m still wondering how it should work now with Drum Machine and Pattern Editor built into Cubase. What kind of features would set it apart from the competition because there are already a lot of good drum plugins out there?
From my use I would like to use it more as a electronic/beat kit rather than a ‘real’ drum kit. There are a lot of ‘real’ sounding kits and I don’t think I would ever use any of them.
New production drum kits that are laid out across many pads not just 16 or 32.
Utilizing FX per pad and layer in the best creative way (design layout)
Add drum synthesis and resynthesis.
Support to allow creation of GA and Drum Synth programs inside .VSTsound. library files.(Inclusion of Library Editor in full version)
I wouldn’t mind the inclusion of a pattern library which lets you reference by adding a few hits and it gives suggestions. I personally never use MIDI patterns the way they are now.
Improved support from Cubase Pattern Editor (when swapping Kits which Pads will show up automatically)