New in ReCycle 2.1

ReCycle 2.1 - now joined by Reload and Reason Adapted - is a complete toolkit for the loop oriented producer. It features multiple undos, true Mac OS X support and full 24-bit resolution.

With multiple undos, true Mac OS X support, and full 24-bit resolution, new ReCycle 2.1 makes your sampled loops and grooves more manageable then ever. ReCycle 2.1 lets you slice up your samples into rhythmical sound chunks and create your own REX2 files, a format used and recognized by virtually all audio sequencers and software samplers on the market. Don’t have all those other programs? Don’t worry. Included in the ReCycle 2.1 application suite are three separate pieces of software – ReCycle, Reason Adapted and Reload – allowing ReCycle users to turn their REX:ed files into music, right out of the box!

Questions? Hopefully we'll be able to answer them all in the ReCycle 2.1 FAQ

The ReCycle toolkit

No Software Sampler? No REX Player?
Relax, you don’t need to go shopping to make use of your ReCycled loops. The ReCycle 2.1 toolkit contains three separate applications – ReCycle, Reason Adapted and Reload – allowing you to turn your REX files into music, right out of the box! So when you’re done perfecting and fine tuning your loops and breaks in ReCycle, just save them as REX files and use them with the REX players or samplers available in your Reason Adapted. But there are more options; adjust tempo-, pitch- and effect settings within ReCycle, save the results as a new audio file, and use it in your audio sequencer or hard disk recorder. You can even export your recycled loops to SoundFont format – use your sound card as a sampler!

Calling all loopists, groovists and samplists!

Loops, grooves and breakbeats: Powerful sonic building blocks, and great inspirational triggers. No matter what style of music you’re into, you can be sure there’s a loop out there that can spice your track up a little, or even lift it to completely new heights. But handling loops and grooves equals hard work. Hours of pitching and stretching just to get a loop to fit your song’s tempo and timing. And if you need to change the key, you’re in for even more work. In the end, your loops are controlling you, instead of vice versa. But help is on its way. From Propellerhead Software comes a suite of programs that gives you full creative control over your looped material!

Welcome to ReCycle 2.1 – The Ultimate Toolkit for Sampled Grooves.

What does ReCycle do?

ReCycle goes way beyond simply solving groove problems and cleaning up your loop act – it’s a highly creative tool that helps you make the most of your grooves. In simple terms, ReCycle lets you do with sampled loops what you can do with beats programmed from individual drum sounds – like alter the tempo, or replace sounds and process them individually. ReCycle turns concrete-rigid loops into musical modeling clay, allowing you, the loopist, to do pretty much what you desire.

For a video overview of ReCycle, have a look at the ReCycle product clip in our video section, where our product specialist James Bernard will guide you through the program.

Then what?

The next step is of course to bring your improved groove into one of your songs. At this point, the procedures differ depending on your equipment and preferred working method:

• If you like, you can use ReCycle simply as a problem solver for loops. Load a drum loop into ReCycle, set a new tempo or pitch, and save the results as a new file. Or load up any groove, and use ReCycle’s on-screen signal processors: Compressor, EQ and Transient Designer, to give it some punch and distinction. Anything you choose to do in ReCycle can be applied to your loop, and saved as a new file.
  
  
• To use your loop directly in Emagic Logic, Steinberg Cubase SX, Steinberg Nuendo or other audio sequencers supporting REX2 files, all you need to do is save your sliced-up loop as a REX2 file and import it onto an Audio Track in your sequencer. The imported loop will play back like the original, but now you can change the tempo freely, and you will have full control over the original slices! Silence, move or replace individual hits, change volume and panning – your loop has come to life!
  
  
• To use recycled loops directly in a REX2 compatible software sampler such as the NN-XT and Dr. Rex modules in Propellerhead Software’s Reason, Steinberg Halion or Emagic EXS24 (see full list below), just follow the same procedure: save your improved loop as a REX2 file containing the samples/slices, and open up the file from your sampler. Quantize it, change the tempo, retune or replace the sounds – Total Loop Control!
  
  
• ReCycle can also export sliced loops in a other popular formats such as SoundFont2 and SampleCell II formats, along with a MIDI file to play the exported loop back with it’s original timing.

Real life applications

Tempo and Timing

• Automate the tedious process of making a sampled groove fit the tempo of your song.
• Change the tempo of a groove without altering its pitch.
• Change the timing of the groove – you can even quantize it!

Tuning and Detuning

• Change the pitch of a groove without altering its tempo.
• Make pitched grooves (like guitar riffs) fit into songs in other keys.

Remodel the Groove!

• Remove and/or replace any sound inside the sampled groove without altering its feel.
• Create variations and fills out of a single loop.
• Alter the volume of the individual sounds in the groove.

Processing

• Use ReCycle’s Envelope, Transient Shaper and EQ to energize your loop.
• Send different sounds in the groove to different sampler outputs or audio channels, for individual processing.
• Alter the ambience of a groove.
• Automatically normalize the levels of the sounds in the groove for optimum sound quality.

Go beyond the Loop!

• Automatically isolate and extract individual sounds out of long samples.
• Use the feel of the groove to quantize other MIDI recordings.

Reload converts AKAI S1000 and S3000 formatted media into formats that can be used with Reason, ReCycle and the rest of your audio applications. The Reload utility lets you load up entire AKAI sound disks and save the contents as NN-XT patches or ReFills – complete with the original sample names, loop points and parameter settings. AKAI samples are easily converted into WAV files, for use with Redrum or NN-19. Or with ReCycle, or with the audio software of your choice.