Dear all, it's a major, major update to Groove Agent and it's available as of today! Groove Agent 5 brings a lot of rhythmic goodness to the table, with many new acoustic and electronic percussive sounds and grooves, a resizable interface and lots more for you to discover.

Key features:

• New high-end acoustic kit recorded at Teldex Studios Berlin
• New kits for EDM, Trap and Future Bass
• 20 new MIDI Styles with intro, outro and fills
• Decompose samples in noise and tonal
• External live sampling directly in Groove Agent
• Style Player for Beat Agent kits
• Pre-listening Styles and Pads
• New definable auto complexity mode
• Resizable user interface
• AAX support

New in Groove Agent 5

Read more about Groove Agent 5

Full Version €179
 
Update from Groove Agent 4 for €99 (Imo, this is high)
 
Absolute Collection customers can not update to Groove Agent 5.
Please wait for the update to Absolute Collection 4 instead.
 

Many many years ago, Groove Agent was the first drum package i had - it NEVER worked properly, so I paid to upgrade to V 2 and V 3 but these didn't work as they should either, so I gave up with Steinberg - to be honest, the problem was partly with Groove Agent, but mainly with Steinberg who I thought were a disreputable company, with atrocious after sales. 
Did they ever get Groove Agent to work as it should? The major problems, if I remember correctly were with output of Midi that matched what you had programmed in Groove Agent - it could not output that Midi in full - also you had to use a third party midi looper program to make it work at all if I remember.
Secondly, have Steinberg themselves improved? Their service in my experience was possibly some of the worst I had ever experienced.
Cheers
Nigel
 
 

Groove Agent 4 was a complete rewrite, so there isn't much reminiscent of GA 1-3.  Version 5 is in many ways incremental to GA 5.  It works well enough with Cubase and has some interesting features like complexity knob, percussion linking, etc.  It has a little bit of a learning curve.  There are a bunch of expansions for it.  
 
Good review and overview
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/using-groove-agent-se4
 
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/steinberg-groove-agent-4
 
 

The Groove Agent of today is really not the same instrument as the original Groove Agent, it has gone in a completely different direction in a lot of ways. It also looks as if Steinberg is using the HALion platform to build on much as UVI and even Kontakt so they can share a common "engine" so to speak.
 
I still have Groove Agent 2 and 3 installed as I have enjoyed using them in the past. A lot of MIDI issues were due to the fact that in the early days of Cakewalk adapting VST compatibility the wrappers just did not work that well. I almost exclusively use J-Bridge as my VST wrapper of choice and have found it very stable.
 
I have yet to really dive into Groove Agent 5 but look forward to discovering.

Hi Simeon
Thanks for the information, very helpful.
You must let us know what you think of 5 once you have had a good "dive in"
Cheers
Nigel