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 2.1.2 - 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.
How is it done?
Start out with a regular audio file or sample,
preferably one of a rhythmic nature. Load the groove
into ReCycle, and the program will "look" at the
groove, analyze it, and break it up into its rhythmic
components. Each part is called a "slice". The
process itself is fully automated, but once the
slices are there, they are yours to move, audition or
delete, using the programs on-screen tools and
controls. Other tools allow you to set the length,
attack and decay of the slices, and to change your
grooves' overall tempo or pitch, without one
affecting the other! It's not magic, but it's
probably as close as you can get.
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.
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