![]() Full List: Audio Plugin/Virtual Instrument Companies/Brands. ![]() ![]() Top 45 Must-Have Tools For Audio Recording/Mixing Studios.Whether it's emulating specific iconic instruments, entire sections of instruments or exploring the vast unknown possibilities of advanced computer-based synthesis, virtual instruments are invaluable tools in the toolbox of those who work with digital audio. It's also made life much easier when clients ask for a 10 bpm increase (simply turn up the DAW tempo instead of scheduling and paying for the musicians to come to re-record in the studio). However, software instruments have made it possible for composers to create entire symphonic scores from their bedrooms and an entire generation of music producers to get their ideas out without learning multiple instruments or hiring musicians. This may be bad news for the session musician. Whether synth-based, sample-based, or a combination thereof, virtual instruments have truly changed the course of music production history. Like in-the-box mixing and mastering, which has become the norm in professional and home studios, instruments can now be recorded with software. And definetely not suited for many different genres.The digital age of recording, in tandem with MIDI, has ushered in an entirely new way of making great music with virtual instruments. This makes me finally having had it with most things Steinberg, I doubt there will be use keeping up even Cubase on my system. For an all round musician working in many different genres GA 5 strikes me as totally useless and a complete waste of time and money, I am sad to say. Have Steinberg not discovered that a drum hit consists of many parts where the striking agent plays an important role, the stick, hand or brush or mallet, but there are no mallets here and definetly no brushes and most drums and mixes has the same (loud” velocity. Grooves being classified by names like ” The London way”, ”young and proud” or ”College bound”. crazy! Of all the myriads of choices there is still no way to follow any logical structure in picking your genre, style, beat or part in the flow of verse or chorus. It jumps from one menu to another and redraws in the spur of a second until you go mad. This is maybe actually the most senseless concept of Steinberg in the whole of Steinbergs lineup, allthough the original idea might be well meaning, but it just doesn´t work, and it never really has either. Look at the so called ”media bay” or browser database which is an absolutely nonfunctioning system to my mind. (it´s like evrytime you turn on the radio it has to be on full blast!) The sound estethics of GA reminds me of ”as many and as hard hits per beat as possible” This is what you get evrytime you are to try out a new ”groove”, before you have manually tweaked every single button down to something more human. This is not for someone playing drums, this is for those beating them!. If you are looking for nuances look elsewhere my friend. I find it in practice totally mainly geared for the aspiring young teenager doing hiphop, techno, punk or whatever of similar sort. In the ads for GA5 Steinberg says it is supposed to serve many different genres. GA 5 is just as far off for any serious musician as before. Now 2018 I thought Steinberg ”today at least must have come to their senses” regarding GA, and took a chance to buy the update.īut no, not at all. I also know there are sensible people at Steinberg with good intentions that I dont want to hurt, but there are so much here that is nothing but kids crap. I think it is the serious need of a true drummer plugin for the serious musician. I may be said that the download of the trial version didn´t work in the first place, and Steinberg now refuses to accept return of GA allthough it useless for me. I was totally disapointed with version 4 when it arrived some years ago. Full of hope I threw in a bunch of bucks to get the update of Groove Agent, GA 5 after having enjoyed GA 1, 2 and 3 (which doesnt work at all on a recent mac computer today since they are outdated now (which says something of the longetivity of Steinberg products).
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