Groove Agent ONE failed to locate samples?

Brookfield67 · May 14, 2011, 6:09am

~Hi, I’ve just upgrade to Cubase 6 from Studio 4.

When I try and audition/import loops I get the following message: ‘Groove Agent ONE failed to locate samples’? I have searched and tried to locate in the Steinberg folder but see nothing?

Where do I find them?

Brookfield67 · May 17, 2011, 12:14pm

Has anyone got any ideas on this? It’s pretty fraustrating. Can’t try out all them new toys!

Sonik · May 17, 2011, 12:20pm

You could try to re-scan vst sounds on Mediabay 1st…

Brookfield67 · May 18, 2011, 8:01am

Hi Sonic

Yea I’ve tried re-scan all over the shop and still get nothing? Very fraustraing. Any other sugestions?

cheers

Paul

Marcus · May 18, 2011, 1:04pm

Hi,

please copy the 3 Groove Agent Content Files from the Cubase DVD to this path/folder:

C:\Users[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Content\VST Sound

The 3 Files can be found here on your Cubase 6 DVD:

[Cubase6-DVD]\Cubase 6 for Windows\Additional Content\VST Sound

1. Groove Agent ONE 01.vstsound
2. Groove Agent ONE 02.vstsound
3. Groove Agent ONE 03.vstsound

Please start now Cubase 6 and rescan VST- Sound in your Mediabay.

Brookfield67 · May 19, 2011, 3:05pm

Hi Marcus

thanks for the advice. I am afraid that didn’t work either? There isn’t 3 Groove Agent One files in that location just loads of sub files?

I copied the whole lot across all the same, re-scanned and still have the same problem?

I am going to uninstall Cubase 6 and start again. Any advice here? I assume I hadn’t loaded the upgrade correctly hence the problem although I’m not sure how? Also, I had sent a support ticket to Steinberg who responded with 'we don’t support Windows Vista so they can’t help! Would Vista be the root of the problem or is that just Steinberg being awkward?

Thanks, Paul

KDEF2004 · May 19, 2011, 11:25pm

Win 7 is the way to go…

Long story short:
I simply copied the file to:
C:\ProgramData\Steinberg\Content\VST Sound\Groove Agent ONE 03.vstsound

Brookfield67 · May 20, 2011, 10:04pm

Thanks guys! I’ve arrived!

Catch ya soon.

cheers

Paul

fakeafaik · May 25, 2011, 8:06pm

i am having the same problem with mine. only for osx.

i’ve found the vst sound folder inside the content folder, but i don’t know where to save it. also at the risk of sounding like a newbie, there doesn’t appear to be any .wav files which is what is seems to be looking for.

any help would be much appreciated!

mike

fakeafaik · May 28, 2011, 11:15am

anyone got any help for me?

i’m new to cubase so i’m working through the demo videos, but I can’t go any further until I get this sorted

Sherz · June 4, 2011, 6:29am

Haven’t ever looked at GA One until now. It couldn’t find any samples when I first ran it. I’ve followed all suggestions above and now it can… but why weren’t the necessary files installed in the first place? I also get the impression there’s other content that’s not been installed…

There seems to be two locations for content under W7?
C:\Users[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Content.…
C:\ProgramData\Steinberg\Content.…

Are both of these valid?

Discoworx · June 4, 2011, 8:17pm

Remember that GA content is in the closed .vstsound format…I dont think individual wavs are inc, you have to use GA in Cubase to bounce down audio…export slices etc…you use Mediabay to load stuff into GA, then export/bounce the actual audio part.

fakeafaik · June 6, 2011, 7:16pm

that seems a bit strange though. it appears to be searching for certain .wav files though, such as kick, tom, snare etc. surely these should be included somewhere?

KDEF2004 · June 6, 2011, 10:14pm

I mentioned this in an older thread.

OK! I looked around on my Mac install of Cubase and found:
E:\Library\Application Support\Steinberg\Content\VST Sound Groove Agent ONE 03.vstsound.

I simply copied the file to:
C:\ProgramData\Steinberg\Content\VST Sound\Groove Agent ONE 03.vstsound

and all is well again.
Now as to why it didn’t install initially, boggles my brain

fakeafaik · June 27, 2011, 7:48pm

i can’t find

C:\ProgramData\Steinberg\Content\VST Sound\Groove Agent ONE 03.vstsound

on osx…

Frank_Heller · June 27, 2011, 8:40pm

anyone got any help for me?
i’m new to cubase so i’m working through the demo videos, but I can’t go any further until I get this sorted

Most likely because you haven’t smartened up the MediaBay as to the whereabouts of the GAO content. It’s not your fault. This has been problematic with MediaBay for ages. Follow the directions in this screenshot:

See if this does the trick.

that seems a bit strange though. it appears to be searching for certain .wav files though, such as kick, tom, snare etc. surely these should be included somewhere?

It’s not. The GAO factory library is closed and proprietary. There are no .WAV or .AIF files associated with it. It’s looking for the “Groove Agent ONE 03.vstsound” file…which contains all the sounds in one big file.

fakeafaik · August 17, 2011, 8:10pm

still no joy…

Frank_Heller · August 17, 2011, 9:15pm

The pathway the Cubase 6.0 Mac installer should have dumped them is:

YourBootDrive/Library/ApplicationSupport/Steinberg/Content/VST Sound/

…there, you should find these three files:

Groove Agent ONE 01.vstsound
Groove Agent ONE 02.vstsound
Groove Agent ONE 03.vstsound

These are the droids you are looking for.

gtrennert · January 14, 2012, 10:11pm

Hello,

I’m on WinXP and have the same problem :
I can find the 3 …vstsound files on the DVD
and copied them to the 2 potential locations I found :
c:\programfiles\steinberg\cubase 6\vst sound
c:\documents and settings[user]\application data\steinberg\content\vst sound
I then followed the LocationScreenshot.JPG but all this does not resolve the problem

Can any body help me ?

Brookfield67 · January 23, 2012, 1:25pm

Hi, like I said in my post, remove Cubase and reinstall. This worked for me first time.

Hope you sort it.

cheers

Paul