Operation Manual

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2. Open the Record tab.
3. In the plug-in header of Groove Agent, activate the Activate Side-Chain button.
4. In the DAW, route the output of the audio track that contains the drum loop to the side-chain
input of Groove Agent.
Alternatively, you can also add a send on the mixer channel of the audio track and route it to
the side-chain input of Groove Agent.
5. On the Record tab in Groove Agent, set Trigger – Start and Trigger – Stop to MIDI Note-
On.
This way, each played MIDI note starts a new sample recording and ends the previous one.
If you set Trigger–Stop to a Fixed Duration of 1/16th, for example, every time a note-on is
received, a sample recording is started and it is stopped automatically after a 1/16th note.
6. Set the Sample Mode to Auto Next to create multiple sample recordings.
7. Set Mapping to Chromatic to map the samples automatically to the consecutive pads and
their corresponding keys on the keyboard.
8. Activate the Pre/Post button and specify a Pre Recording Time of a few milliseconds.
This helps you to avoid missing the attack of a sound when triggering a recording slightly
too late, for example.
9. Set Auto Trim to Silence.
This way, the attack of a sound is corrected, for example, if you triggered a recording too
early or if the pre-recorded section contains silence.
10. Click the Record/Record Enable button to enable recording.
11. In the Steinberg DAW, play back the audio track.
12. Do one of the following:
Play a MIDI note each time that you want to start recording a new slice.
Use a programmed MIDI sequence that represents the slices that you want to record.
For example, create a MIDI part that contains eight 1/8th note events and use this part
to trigger the recording. This way, you have an exact and reproducible trigger sequence.
This is particularly useful if the loop exists as an audio part inside the same project.
RESULT
Groove Agent creates a sample for each slice and maps it to the corresponding keys. You can
now play a MIDI ramp sequence to play the original loop, or get creative and program
completely different patterns.
Recording Samples in the Standalone Version
In the standalone version of Groove Agent, you can create samples by recording the audio input
of the plug-in.
PROCEDURE
1. Open the Preferences dialog, select the Input tab and select the audio inputs of your
hardware for
Input 1 and Input 2, and click OK.
2. In the Kit Rack, select the kit for which you want to record the samples.
3. Open the Record tab and make the following settings:
Set Record Start Trigger and Record Stop Trigger to Audio Threshold and specify the
threshold levels.
Set Sample Mode to Auto Next to create multiple sample recordings.
Set Mapping to Chromatic to map the samples to the pads/keys automatically.
4. Click the Record/Record Enable button to enable recording.
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