This year at the Frankfurt Musikmesse Steinberg is proud to present Groove Agent, the new VSTi by the development team behind "Virtual Guitarist": Groove Agent, a drummer who plays live, dynamic drums at the press of a button.

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Groove Agent can play most famous drum styles from decades of music history. Some styles also include drum sounds recorded onto analog tape with vintage equipment for that genuine studio drum sound.

Anyone who can't do without their own drum sounds but wants Groove Agent to play their "live" drums for them can simply record the MIDI output to a GM-compatible drum track and then use their drum sample player of choice.

Features:

• Over 50 musical styles.
• Up to two dozen complexity levels in each style.
• Fine-tune the overall feel with the Shuffle and Humanize controls.
• Four drum kits plus percussion and electronic drum sounds.
• Combine any style with any drum kit - instantly.
• Save snapshots of your tweaks for easy recall.

Groove Agent supports VST, is compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Mac OS X and will be available in April 2003 for €249.00.