Groove Agent 5 update too expensive!

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.

There sure must be many super rich musicians that can afford GA5 . The update is too expensive .

Also I just noticed that it’s $99 in American dollars yet Steinberg is charging Canadians $150 Canadian.

Here’s the currency conversion rate $99 USD = $130.6355 CAD

Is there any way you could show us that Groove agent 5 is 15% more CPU hungry than Groove agent se4? A screenshot or a video. This is important to me as Groove agent 4 is already quite CPU hungry. It needs is twice the amount of CPU that Addictive Drums 2 does and a quarter more than ezdrummer.

Not for me either - just too pricey!!
Very excited to readthere was an update. I’m a loyal Steinberg subscriber since the very first editiion of Cubase and have since gone on to add Halion, Groove agent,Orchestra, songwriter, guitar harmonics…etc I remember the upgrade from GA to GA4 wan’t that expensive. Having read the reviews it would appear that GA5 doesnt warrent the upgrade price. perhaps best to miss a generation or look elsewhere? Come on Steinberg…reward your loyal users please dont “USE” them for simple profit gain…if you want to keep us - treat us well, or we’ll walk.

Well clearly business must be booming, either that or the powers that be at Steinberg are NOT LISTENING and IN DENIAL!


If this was football I think I can safely say that Steinberg have played an OWN GOAL!

Actually, the GA4 update price was the same as this one… on other hand, that update was a very big one. This update seems to be much smaller. But the price structure is actually the same as before. Logically a smaller update should be cheaper than a bigger one though.

Definitely a disproportian between the upgrade price of GA5 and Cubase Pro 10. Why? Because its the same, 99€! And I also would never have upgraded to G5 if Cubase Pro 10 had been released first. Why? Because it includes GA 5 SE, which would be ok for me. For me, this was a calculated move by Steinberg, because they knew this was gonna happen. That’s why I really feel like I’m being screwed. I am using Cubase since the Atari times, but this move to get my and the money of others is a shame which I never saw before.
So its not only the huge upgrade fee, but also to release it short before Cubase 10.

SO TRUE !!!

I’ll pass both updates…wait for a cut in price, or well kinda go see what other brands has to offer. (BTW I’m the kinda guy who buys the (cubase) update kinda fast usually…well not this year, I’ll keep my money)

I’ll buy when its $50

Ok, when it’s 49$.
That is a reasonable price for this update!

Apparently Steinberg still doesn’t give much about the overall sentiment of customers who supported their product the last years. If they even had a little respect towards its loyal Groove Agent customers, a representative could try to explain the reasoning behind the high upgrade price compared to other Steinberg products.

To Steinberg I can only say: You can hold any survey you want to try to connect with your customers, but as long as you keep treating existing customers with that typical infamous Steinberg arrogance, you will gain little sympathy.

I agree. I’ve given in and paid and it really isn’t worth the extra money for what you get over 4

No incentive such as an upgrade price for Cubase 10 owners with GA SE 5 at all. I was interested and one look at the price was enough to forget it. :astonished:

True although in this particular sale of Groove Agent 5 software Steinberg is gouging their customers . And the proof of that is that Steinberg will not even issue a try for 30 days before you buy version of Groove Agent 5 .

@ DEC 2/18 my correction :

Steinberg has released a 30 day try before you buy Groove Agent 5

although for me considering the foreign exchange mark up ( from Canadian $ to US $ )the cost is pricey
however
I suppose that’s the price i have to pay for a quality software .

I have been using/paying for Steinberg’s software ever since the day their software was issued on 3.5 floppy disks including the authorization 3.5 floppy disks.

There is a 30 day trial

Even if i did wanna upgrade, i can’t, as i bought the Absolute Collection so i gotta wait for at least 6 weeks or maybe more according to their Twitter account…