![]() After audio is selected, a wave editor-like interface lets you dissect, set loop points, silence unwanted sections of audio, and export the sample in a number of different file formats, including standard MIDI files (which can later be used to drive other samples), whole loop or individual one-shot. And, while you will typically use ReCycle to work with short loops, it can handle files all the way up to 5 minutes in length. Sample rates can be as low as 11 kHz and as high as 1.0 MHz. AIFF format files, with bit depths of 8, 16 or 24 bits. ReCycle 2.0 can handle both mono and stereo. ReCycle settings really involve no more than selecting your sound card and audio buffer my Athlon 700 MHz with 128 MB of RAM worked fine at about a 40ms buffer. ReCycle requires a Power Mac or Pentium 66MHz PC with at least 16 MB of RAM, CD-ROM and a 16-bit sound card. The program stands at only around 6 MB fully loaded, and requires a straightforward one-time serial number entry in order to fire up clean for good. Taking the ReCycle disc out of the jewel case and placing it into my CD-ROM took approximately 90 seconds longer than actually installing the software. Also, extracting sounds from a sampled loop and editing loop start/end points is a breeze. This allows loops to be played at any tempo, quantized, played manually, re-combined to make new loops and a host of other creative possibilities we will touch on below. Some applications can import a REX file, which contains all of the above slice information, plus retaining the respective timing of the loop. These can be exported in a variety of formats and even sent via SMIDI to a hardware sampler. For example, in a basic drum loop, each kick, snare and hi-hat sound becomes individual samples, as opposed to one big loop. It achieves this by allowing users to edit their sample into individual slices at each sonic attack point. Instead of accelerating or decelerating a sample when changing tempo, ReCycle lets you create a REX file and export each and every sound contained within the sample. If you’ve never heard of a REX file, or fiddled with a loop in ReCycle (Version 1.x), now may be as good a time as any to dig in and learn what ReCycle and its useful REX format can do for you. ReCycle isn’t one of those “keep you up all night” creative toys, but rather an indispensable workhorse to those who use it, and an exciting new tool for those just catching word.įor years now, beat-junkies, club remixers and the loop-based music cognoscenti have been calling on ReCycle to tweak the beat at any tempo they choose. In 2001, the Propellerheads software team released the virtual, modular rack synthesizer/sampler/sequencer/drum machine combo Reason 1.0, and a sweeping upgrade to a tried-and-true groove-editing application - the subject of this review - ReCycle 2.0. ![]()
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