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The included VST instruments
Introduction
This chapter contains descriptions of the included VST in-
struments and their parameters.
Groove Agent ONE
(Cubase Elements only)
Groove Agent ONE is an easy-to-use sample-based
MPC-style virtual drum machine for creating beats and
reconstructing loops.
Audio samples can be associated with the Groove Agent
ONE pads. Each pad is associated with a MIDI pitch, allow-
ing you to trigger individual pads via MIDI notes.
To facilitate the creation of your own drum patterns, Groove
Agent ONE provides a number of advanced functions.
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 dif
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ferent groups by clicking on the corresponding group but-
tons (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 differ-
ent note from the pop-up menu.
• You can assign up to eight samples to a pad.
See “Drag & drop of audio material” on page 26.
• 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, e.
g., 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 27).
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 but
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ton 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]/[Com-
mand]-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 27).
• 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 assign-
ment 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 desired pad.