Beat Creation
Cubase Studio 5 features outstanding new tools for creating beats, generating exciting new rhythms and working with loops.
Drum sampling deluxe
Groove Agent ONE pairs powerful drum sampling with detailed sound shaping — seamlessly integrated into Cubase. Not only does it boast sliced loop and MPC-import but rocks right out of the box with its own custom library of only the finest acoustic, urban, hip hop and dance drum kits! Each of its virtual pads features a complete sound processing section that gives full control of textures, timbres and expressive qualities of each drum sound. Creation of custom kits with drag and drop from the MediaBay allows an extremely fluid and easy workflow.
- Support for WAV, AIFF and the legendary MPC format
- Easy to use interface — the perfect fusion of functionality and simplicity
- Powerful editing section for each drum sound
- Automatically maps sliced Cubase audio parts or multiple audio events across the pads by simply dragging them directly to Groove Agent ONE
- Convert sliced audio loops to MIDI by dragging them back to a MIDI track
Beat it!
Beat Designer is a hot new beat construction plug-in that allows you to get hands-on with beats for step programming and designing drum patterns in an easy yet powerful way, working hand in hand with Groove Agent ONE. Getting really interactive with different grooves and variations has never been easier: Beat Designer organizes several patterns at once in customizable banks and can trigger each of them in real time and synced to Cubase with a MIDI keyboard.
- Supports up to 64 steps per pattern
- Customizable resolution and time signature
- Support for flam hits and rolls
- Individual volume settings for each element in a beat allowing full control of the dynamics of any groove
- Comes with dozens of beats in various styles perfectly matching the Groove Agent ONE kits



