Plug-in Reference

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The Included VST Instruments
Groove Agent ONE
Groups and Pads
The pads and all functions related to the associating and auditioning of sounds can be
found in the right half of the Groove Agent ONE panel.
Groove Agent ONE provides up to 128 pads, organized in eight groups of 16 pads.
You can switch between the different groups by clicking on the corresponding group
buttons (labeled 1 to 8) above the pads. Each pad is mapped to a particular MIDI note
(C-2 to G8, which equals 128 notes).
• The button of the active group is highlighted. If one or more pads of a group have
samples mapped to them, an additional red frame is displayed around group
buttons.
By default, group 3 is active when you open Groove Agent ONE.
Pad Functions
• The pads show the associated MIDI note in the top right corner.
You can change the MIDI note by right-clicking it and selecting a different note
from the pop-up menu.
• You can assign up to eight samples to a pad.
See “Drag & Drop of Audio Material” on page 155.
• If one or more samples have been assigned to a pad, the name of the first of these
samples is displayed at the bottom of the pad.
To change the name, right-click it, enter a new name and press [Enter]. This allows
you, for example, to indicate that more than one sample is mapped to this pad.
• To remove a sample assignment, click on the pad and drag the associated
sample(s) to the trash icon in the LCD display to the left (see
“Editing Sounds” on
page 157).
Note that the trash icon is found only on either the Voice, Filter or Amplifier pages.
• The pad status is indicated by different colors.
During playback, a pad lights up yellow for as long as a sample mapped to this pad
is played back. When either the Voice, Filter or Amplifier button is activated in the
Pad Edit section and you click on a pad, it turns light green to indicate that it is
selected for editing. Unselected pads not playing back any samples are gray.
• To select multiple pads for sound editing, [Ctrl]/[Command]-click on the pads.
The pad that has been selected first lights up light green, the rest of the selected
pads turn dark green (see
“Editing Sounds” on page 157).
• To mute or solo a pad, click the corresponding icon in the upper left corner of a
pad.
The icon lights up to indicate that the pad is muted or soloed. If you solo a pad, all
other pads are muted automatically. To unmute or unsolo the pad, click once more
on the icon.
• You can drag a sample from one pad to another pad.
If the second pad already has a sample mapped to it, the sample assignment is
swapped. Note that you can also swap the MIDI notes of the two pads by pressing
[Shift] when dropping the sample.
• You can drag and drop samples between groups.
Click on a pad that has a sample mapped to it, keep the mouse button pressed
and move the mouse pointer over the button of another group. When the pad
display now changes to display the pads of the other group, drag and drop the
sample on the pad.