Groove Agent 5 update too expensive!

I’m keeping my money.

+1.

I don’t know. If they throw in one of their $35 t-shirts into the mix… :confused:

dedicated to you personally then :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

I’m as greedy as they are, so you guess…

My go to drum sample player is GA4 hands down. But I won’t upgrade for €99,-
I don’t need extra kits or MIDI patterns because I use GA to create those for my own music. :wink:
€49,- was an instant buy!

Well, €99 is very expensive for an upgrade of a €179 product!
It should be around €49-59…

Full GA4 owner, gonna pass this for now. Wake me up when you come up with a better offer…

Allright, it’s not just me.

Upgrading 3 versions (2 to 5) is only €20 more expensive than from 4 to 5,
by this logic I’ll wait for version 7 or buy a complete new license v6 or later and use v4.x on my other computer and still save €20.

Most logical would be: 4 to 5 €45, 3 to 5 €90, 2 to 5 €135.

I was very excited to see that Groove Agent 5 was finally released…

But what I have seen so far is disappointing (including the release videos on youtube). New feature(s) don’t seem to justify a jump to 5 and given the comments so far, I guess I am not alone in suggesting the price really is too high! Ok, so there is another acoustic kit… I am sure top notch recording and sound. But why force us to buy into another acoustic kit? Not every one needs yet another acoustic kit!

The features don’t really seem to blow any one away either… I am trying to make this comment as fair as possible, but it does seem like Steinberg just migrated the sampling feature from Halion to GA. For me the biggest drawback in GA is the Liliput style GUI. It’s been mentioned so many times before. It was even printed as a negative review point in a well known Music Magazine. The buttons on both Halion and GA are too tiny!!! The UI is quirky and everything but intuitive. These concerns are simply ignored. The only button that has doubled in size after the release of GA5 is the “Add to Cart” button on Steinberg’s new website! Just increase the size of the buttons by 3 mm, that would already help tremendously (same for the button sizes in Halion).

I was hoping that any regrets felt in comparing GA4 with Superior Drummer 3 would have vanished after the release of GA5. Unfortunately - in what I have seen so far - this doesn’t seem to be the case at all.

Skinny upgrade for way to high a price! It leaves me wondering: Is this the update users really asked for in Steinberg’s latest survey?

@ Maggie: The full version of GA 4 is 138 € at Thomann. Considering that there is a grace period for free upgrades to GA5 (for recent purchases of GA4), this makes the the theoretical price difference between the full version of GA5 (138 €) and upgrade (99 €) a total of only 38 €.

If you sold your existing license of GA4 for 80 € on the secondary market a week ago, subsequently bought a new full version of GA4 for 138 € then upgraded for free to GA5 within the grace period, you could have actually gotten the upgrade for 58 €.

That’s more like what people would be willing to pay, around 50 to 60 €.

99 Euro to Canadian is $147.85. I’m off the upgrade bus.

Agree - way too expensive (unless they are deliberately setting it high now and planning to drop it on Black Friday!) They must think we are all fools!

Resizing for me is to resize the buttons too.
The price? Maybe it’s correct if you’re a Steinberg employee, as a user … hm … no.

Toontrack: wait 'tll the black Friday week-deals come along, got mine at 40% off i think. You can also find SD2 fairly cheap on Ebay, did that and then upgraded to SD3. Addictive Drums2 is also quite good, simpler to use. XLN also offers 50% off usually one week around Christmas. Drawback is their ONLY online copy protection functionality, why i did not buy the full pack, just one quite good percussion kit. -F

Unfortunately, very disappointing :frowning: !! bought it as impulse buy and a complete waste of money as it should have been a maintenance update. Wish I could get a refund!! :angry:

My gut feeling was there was too little to pique my interest for the update price. HALion 6 has live sampling. Just record the samples in Cubase or HALion 6 and import them into Groove Agent 4! We have become so lazy!

I purchased GA5 outright feeling I needed more features than GA SE4 offered. So far, I’m not that impressed and would suggest others not to buy or upgrade until you try the demo (if they bother to release one that is).

A few things that bothered me:

Same dated timestretch algorithm
GUI resizes but buttons/icons do NOT & remain small
Wave showing behind envelope should be a default setting (or at least a preference)
More CPU hungry (buy around 15%) than GA SE4 with the same kit loaded
States that you can Drag Drop samples from Groove Agent to Cubase but to date cant figure out how and manual doesn’t explain either
And yep that upgrade price. I for one wouldn’t have done so at that price. And to think that the competition like Imageline offer free for lifetime upgrades on their flagship DAW. They make Steinberg look like outright greedy and anti consumer.

PS I wish the Groove Agent forums were more lively. It’s almost a ghost town over here.

Easy. No buy. Money saved :smiley:

Not sure steinberg is on point or even being honest with this.

This is seems like a maintenance upgrade rather then a new branch.