GigaStudio 3 Features:
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.
How Is It Done?
Start out with a regular audio file or a sample in your sampler,
preferrably one of a groovy 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, monitor
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 Propellerhead Reason, Steinberg
Cubase VST, or other programs 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 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!
If you're using a sampler, ReCycle creates a soundbank containing
the samples/slices, and transmits it to your sampler. ReCycle
then creates a MIDI file based on the timing of the original
groove. Import the MIDI file into your sequencer, and it will
trigger the slices in your sampler, playing back the groove
you started out with. Only this time — you make the rules.
Quantize it, change the tempo, retune, or replace the sounds
— Total Loop Control!
New in Recycle 2.0
Here is a list of the most important changes in ReCycle 2.0
from ReCycle 1.7:
Support for stereo files
You can open stereo audio files and import stereo files from
a hardware sampler and then save/export them as stereo after
slicing them.
Preview listening
You can now listen to the loop at new tempo and pitch settings.
Realtime effects
Effects to tweak the sound of your loops:
1. Envelope. A stretch feature was included in previsou versions
too, but this time it has an attack and decay setting too.
2. Transient shaper. This is a compression utility that trigs
its gain reduction on each slice. Perfect to get more snappiness
from your loops.
3. EQ. All the bass you want. Or not want. ReCycle's EQ has
a Hi-cut, a lo-cut and two parametric filters.
Support for new samplers
AKAI S-5000/6000 and all SMDI capable samplers are now supported.
Move slices
You can now move the slices you have added manually.
Support for REX2
ReCycle 2.0 uses the REX2 format as its native save format.
REX2 files can be played in programs such as Reason and Cubase.
The format also has a 50% non lossy compression. |
