Loops grooves and breakbeats Powerful sonic
building blocks and great inspirational triggers. No
matter what style of music youre into you can be
sure theres 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 songs tempo and timing. And if you
need to change the key youre 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 - its 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 Its not magic but its
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 ReCycles 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 Softwares 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 its origin in