Propellerhead ReCycle 2.1

 

New mac OS X compatiblReCycle 2.1 has gone from tool to toolkit

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

than ever. 

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 youfull 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.

 

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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