Groove Agent 6

Everything for perfect drums and percussion

Make Your Beats With The Best Creative Drum Software — Groove Agent

Groove Agent is a complete groove and beat-making environment, with a vast collection of fresh drum sounds, deeply sampled acoustic kits, and authentic percussion sets. Get everything you will ever need for drums in one smoothly-designed, resizable VST plug-in. Create the best grooves you have ever done – at lightning-fast speed.

• Five mix-ready acoustic drum kits played by session drummers
• Create beats with pattern editor and a huge library of modern drums samples
• Drag and drop more than 1,000 MIDI grooves and patterns
• Works with all DAWs (e.g. Cubase, Nuendo, FL Studio, Ableton, Logic Pro)

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

Steinberg 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. At its core is a deeply sampled Tama Starclassic Bubinga kit with a natural room ambience. It comes with 25 new presets – each with its own mix and played MIDI styles, recorded by a professional session drummer. These include intros, outros, and multiple groove variations.

Make beats faster

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.

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.

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.

Smarter Search. Faster Workflow.

The MediaBay is now context-sensitive, automatically filtering results based on your workflow. For example, when layering kicks it displays only kick samples, making your search faster and more relevant. You can also filter by Agent type or explore all your Steinberg sample packs with ease, using the new Sample tab.

Find the perfect pitch

Analyze the pitch of your drum samples with a single click, then tune them to match the key of your song. It’s a fast and intuitive way to ensure your drums sit perfectly in the mix.

More new features

• New spectral algorithm in Warp Mode: Play drum or melodic samples in sync with the project tempo or beats.
• Every kit preset now includes a preview, which automatically adjusts to your track’s tempo.
• Smoother, faster workflow with our redesigned graphic user interface
• Hardware mapping for e-drum sets: Simply connect your e-drum set to Groove Agent and start playing
• 5 new effects: Auto Gain Compressor, Fuzz Distortion, Clipper, Studio EQ 24
• Intuitively draw, tweak, and refine envelope curves with the new Shaper Mode for envelopes