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Propellerheads ReCycle 2.1 Toolkit

Propellerheads ReCycle Toolkit is THE loops, grooves and breakbeats tool, creating 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!

What’s new in ReCycle 2.1:

• Reason Adapted and Reload included. Your favourite loop chopping software now comes with Reason Adapted and Reload included, for instant cutting, converting and composing. Creative loop sequencing in a box.
• Full 24-bit resolution
• Mac OS X Support
• True Windows XP Support
• Multiple Undos

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.

ReCycle Features:

• 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.

Where to use ReCycle loops:
This is 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 Apple 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 Logic 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.

List of software samplers and applications supported by ReCycle 2.1:
- Propellerhead Software Reason
- Apple Logic Audio 7
- Apple EXS24
- Steinberg Cubase VST
- Steinberg Cubase SX
- Steinberg Nuendo
- Steinberg Halion
- MOTU Digital Performer 4
- MOTU Mach 5
- Native Instruments Kontakt 2
- Native Instruments Intakt
- Native Instruments Kompakt
- Native Instruments Battery
- Synapse Audio Orion
- Bitheadz Unity Session
- Bitheadz AS-1
- Cakewalk Project 5
- IK Multimedia SampleTank
- Mixman Mixman Studio
- AKAI s-5000/s-6000
- AKAI z-series

Interactive screenshot:

Download Demo (the demo has all the functionality found in the full version, but is limited to using only the four loops supplied with the demo; these loops can be sliced, transmitted, exported or saved as in the full version; 8.5 Mb):
ReCycle Demo 2.1 - PC Win 2000/XP
ReCycle Demo 2.1 - Mac OS X version

About Propellerhead Software
Propellerhead Software is a privately owned company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Formed in 1994, Propellerhead has created some of the most innovative new music software (ReBirth, ReCycle and Reason) and technology standards, including ReWire and the REX file format, which are used extensively in all kinds of music production. Propellerheads’ ReBirth program was the first virtual emulation of vintage analog gear - a trend that now dominates the music software arena.

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