Can Halion create Groove Agent kits?

vncvr · May 17, 2020, 5:02pm

Brian Roland:

lovegames:

Thanks for such an in depth reply.

What I’m mostly curious about how/what is used to create the Groove Agent packs that come along with their own virtual drum kit graphics and protocols. From what I can tell, there is nothing in GrooveAgent that would allow me to design my own Kits with GUI elements and layer mixing protocols. I thought maybe these were compiled in Halion, but perhaps the devs have their own private/invite only SDK for GrooveAgent they haven’t released publicly.

I hear you, and I agree.

GA doesn’t yet give users the macro and scripting options. I’m anticipating them as well.

As far as I know, we can’t use H6 to get around those limits. Even if were ‘technically possible’, we don’t have the INFORMATION on how to build the stuff for GA. NO access to ‘working examples’ etc.

We’ll just have to wait until GA development ‘catches up’.

I’m hopeful that soon, GA will take a similar path, and provide a total dev package like H6.

Note, we didn’t get it in HALion either, until version 6 hit the streets. With H5, we could make content that would work in SE, but it was still limited to people with Steinberg hosts (or an investment in Sonic 3 at least), and we could not make custom macros. We could script some, but the documentation on it was sparse, and kits to study and get examples from didn’t exist.

Many of us didn’t really care about macros, or distributing our HALion specific work to others…the HALion UI is good on its own. So we purchased it anyway, purely for our own personal use. Many others balked though, because NI had the tools to ‘distribute’ their work in a more consumer friendly way. Now HALion has it too

H6 really opened the door though, and gives it a shot at competing with the likes of Kontakt and other similar engines.

Lets keep our fingers crossed that GA does the same soon.

Maybe 6 is the magic number!