Recycle 2.1 - Now with Reason Adapted!
Reason Adapted is a slimmed-down version of Reason 2.5, Propellerhead Software's award-winning music production instrument. Although Reason Adapted may not be quite as powerful as its heavyweight champion bigger brother Reason 2.5, it's still a fierce fighter that packs a powerful punch!
What does ReCycle do?
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!
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.
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
New in ReCycle 2.1
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!
- Mac OS X Support
- True Windows XP Support
- Multiple Undos
- Full 24-bit resolution
- Reason Adapted and Reload included
Get ready to Reload
Feel like loading the world's largest sample library into Reason's samplers? Or into ReCycle? Or into your other audio apps? Try Reload, our small but smart utlity program for smooth AKAI format conversion.
System Requirements
PC
- PC with 300 MHz or faster Pentium compatible processor
- 128 MB of RAM or more
- CD-ROM drive (for installation only)
- Windows 2000, Windows XP (or later)
- 800x600 display (or better)
- 16-bit Windows compatible audio card, preferably with an ASIO or DirectX driver
Mac
- Power Macintosh G3, G4 or G5 processor (or better)
- 128 MB of RAM or more
- CD-ROM drive (for installation only)
- Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later
- 800x600 display (or better)
