Steinberg Groove Agent 6

MAKE YOUR BEATS WITH THE BEST CREATIVE DRUM SOFTWARE — GROOVE AGENT
Designed for both songwriters and beat producers, Groove Agent 6 includes the very best of electronic and acoustic drums. One of the most detailed acoustic drum kits ever featured in Groove Agent sits alongside a wide variety of percussion, modern electronic drums and MIDI grooves, delivering an inspirational rhythmic composition tool for producers in every genre, from jazz, funk and rock to Trap and EDM. Support for VST, AU and AAX plug-in formats means Groove Agent 6 can be used with virtually any DAW.

• Exceptional-quality acoustic drums and percussion
• Banging electronic drums for Trap, EDM and more
• New Decompose feature for your own signature drum sound
• Over 1,000 MIDI grooves for a wide range of different genres

NEW IN GROOVE AGENT 6
Customize your acoustic drum kits

Give your kick more punch, add a second snare layer to cut through the mix, or swap out toms to define your own sound. With the powerful layering and replacement feature for kicks, snares, and toms in Acoustic Agent, you can transform any drum kit into your own signature piece.

47 new acoustic kit pieces

We sampled an incredible collection of acoustic drums in various sizes and materials for the new layering and replacement feature. In total, you get 15 new kicks, eight toms, and 24 snares to create the best drum kit you’ve ever heard.

Punch Kit

The new Punch Kit delivers a natural, gritty, high-impact acoustic sound inspired by the explosive energy of bands like Blink-182, Rage Against the Machine, Incubus, and Deftones. At its core is a deeply sampled Tama Starclassic Bubinga kit with a natural room ambience. But the Punch Kit isn’t just about sound — it’s about feel.

25 new styles

Each of the 25 presets for Punch Kit comes with its own mix and played MIDI styles, recorded by a professional session drummer. These include intros, outros, and multiple groove variations. It ensures that every groove you build carries a human touch — raw, dynamic, and ready to punch through the mix.

Color Punch – 25 new Beat Agent kits

Color Punch delivers a vibrant palette of drum sounds, expertly crafted for cutting-edge, modern pop production. Hard-hitting kicks, razor-sharp hi-hats, crisp percussion, and punchy snares create a dynamic rhythmic backbone — all designed to inspire and blend seamlessly with shimmering synths, gritty basslines, and unforgettable vocal hooks.

Pattern Editor

Step into a new era of beat creation, with a pattern editor engineered for precision, flexibility, and creative flow. Built with beat makers in mind, it assigns each pad its own dedicated lane — empowering you to sculpt intricate rhythms in no time. Whether you’re chasing happy accidents or crafting structured grooves, the built-in random and Euclidean step generators ignite instant inspiration.

Tweak your mix with high precision

The Mixer panel is now seamlessly integrated into the lower section of the interface and can also be undocked or opened in its own window. Effortlessly shape your sound by editing kits and mixer settings side by side, without interrupting your creative flow. With a unified mixer and FX editor across all Agent types, fine-tuning your mix has never been easier.

Completely refreshed. Fully scalable.

Say hello to a smoother, faster workflow with our redesigned graphic user interface. Optimized for single slot usage and scalable from -50% to +100%, the new interface adapts to your screen and style. Enjoy larger Acoustic Agent interfaces, an improved edit section, fluid navigation, customizable toolbars, and much more.

Spectral mode for Audio Warp

Play drum or melodic samples in sync with the project tempo or beats. The new spectral algorithm in Warp Mode comes with a transient detection and preserves the natural sound of samples, even while working creatively or with extreme settings.

New pre-listening experience

Every kit preset now includes a preview, which automatically adjusts to your track’s tempo. Plus, discover the perfect sound on the fly and audition individual instruments directly within your drum pattern — before loading them into your project.

FIVE GOOD REASONS TO USE GROOVE AGENT 5

New acoustic drums in The Kit
The Kit brings fantastic new acoustic drum sounds to Groove Agent, including Pearl kick and snare, four Yamaha Maple Custom toms, four cymbals from Zildjian, Istanbul ride and Paiste splash cymbals — all recorded with high-end Neumann microphones and outboard gear in Berlin’s Teldex Studios, including its classic reverb chamber. ‘The Kit’ comes with 47 articulations, five round robins and up to 20 velocities and, most importantly, a sound that is very versatile and can be pushed in any direction in your mix.

More than 30 new kits for EDM, Trap and other styles
All new kits have been created for Groove Agent 5 by top electronic artists including Rawtekk, Audeka, zKlang, Joe Ford and a number of other young and hungry producers. As well as beat patterns, Beat Agent kits also now include samples like basses, small melody parts, miscellaneous hits and other noises. Further great news is that you can now also use the Style Player for Beat Agent.

Exciting new styles for songwriters
Groove Agent 5 features 20 new MIDI Styles for songwriters, including intro, outro, fills and different complexities. They cover a range of genres, including rock, progressive rock, blues rock, alternative rock, indie, funk, soul, jazz, crossover and reggae, with every style played by a top drummer and exclusively mixed for The Kit.

Sound design with Decompose
Decompose is a sound designer’s dream! With it you can load a sample and easily separate it into its tonal and noise components. Once you’ve done that, you can easily drag and drop each part onto Groove Agent pads to layer your drums, creating an endless array of possibilities. Just imagine combining a fat 808 kick tone with the noise of a 909 snare. Or an electronic snare with the noise of an acoustic hi-hat.

Change the pitch of samples
Create new exciting drum sounds with changing the pitch envelope of a sample. This is especially great for EDM music if you want to create drops and build ups or if you want to do pitch adjustments of pre-recorded drums. Combined with the new Decompose you can also modulate the pitch of tone and noise separately – a very unique approach in working with drum sounds.

20 new MIDI Styles
Played and mixed by top drummers and engineers

32 plug-in outputs
You can use more audio outputs than ever before

32 velocity layers
Groove Agent now handles up to 32 velocity layers

Decompose sounds
Easily separate sounds into the tonal and noise components for an endless array of possibilities

Drag and drop samples on pads
Build your own kits of single instruments, recorded or Decomposed samples

Drag and drop to Cubase
Drag samples or MIDI grooves from Groove Agent to Cubase

Export mix to Cubase 10
… including all inserts in each channel strip

Filter content by instrument
New Beat Agent kits are also available as single instrument presets

Improved Style Player
New auto complexity mode, with export options for complexities and fills

Live sampling
Record your own samples directly to pads in Groove Agent

Load styles and MIDI
… with a simple double click

More than 30 new Beat Agent kits
For EDM, Trap, Future Bass, Drum ‘n’ Bass, Modern Funk and more

New Pitch modulation
The perfect addition for Decompose: pitch only the tonal part and leave the noise unpitched

New auto complexity mode
After inserting a drum fill, you can define the complexity of how it’s played

New modern user interface
Resizable, undockable and ready for HiDPI

Pre-listening pads and Styles
Even during playback you can switch instruments or grooves and hear if they fit in

Revised pitch envelope
… with much better handling

Sample view in envelope editors
Show samples in the background of envelope editors

Selectable auto fills
In the Style Player, you can now select just the auto fills you want to use

Solo per layer
Solo listening of samples on pads with more than one layer

Style Player for Beat Agent
Acoustic MIDI styles now can be played by electronic kits

The Kit
The finest acoustic drums, recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin