Forgive me if this has been answered but I was wondering if there is a way to route Groove Agent into Audio Tracks without bouncing them to audio. I’d like to keep the flexibility of editing my drums if possible but GA’s presets sometimes sound off (like crashes too high or hats too low). I have enough CPU to make several instances but that defeats the purpose of using the drum roll.
Thank you in advance.
I wouldn’t see what the advantage would be to route GA’s audio outputs to audio channels. Can you elaborate on your use case?
Are you aware that you can active more than one audio output channel inside GA, so that e.g. you can process snare differently than kicks?
Thank you for the prompt reply. I am watching a tutorial on GA right now so I’m familiarizing myself with it.
I’ll give you an example of what I’m working with now. In the preset for Nu Metal, (Walking While Sleeping), I click on “mixer”. I see Kick, Snare, Hats, Toms, Room and Overhead. I don’t see a way to raise the Crash (for example).
I click on the pad and I see a few options to tweek room and overhead but I can’t seem to find a mixer that shows each individual sound.
So I just switched to Indie Dance Kit. I clicked on the pad and hit “Edit”. I see volume controls there but that requires clicking each pad and adjusting the volume.
Plus ultimately it’s all going to be bounced to audio at the end of the project so it would be nice to just have audio tracks already there and add an SSL or whatever to each different element within the Cubase Mixer itself.
That being said, I am not familiar with GA’s audio outputs so that may be just what I’m looking for! I am looking up that function now but feel free to explain it a bit if you’d like. It would be helpful! Cheers!
Aaah! I think I got it.
Studio → Groove Agent → Input Options
Then in Groove Agent, route elements to the output channels.
Cool! Thank you
So the problem I’m running into now (with the Nu Metal preset anyway) is that I can’t seem to find a way to actually route the pads themselves. As I said, I see kick, snare, toms, hats but no cymbals. Plus,. let’s say I want to rout each tom to a separate track to control the volume / EQ of each individually.
It’s probably right in front of my face but please point me in the right direction.
Thank you!
If you right click on the “agent” square in the right hand panel, you can select “move all channels” to mixer (or something like that)
Right click a pad, in the context menu there is “assign output”. GA has internal busses (for routing audio inside the plugin) and then audio outputs (to route audio to the host).
Maybe this video will help a bit. Please note the video shows the full version of Groove Agent where you might use Groove Agent SE, which came included in Cubase.
