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- Page 1 www.propellerheads.se Made in Sweden Version Operation Manual Change the tempo of a groove without altering its pitch – and vice versa! , Change the feel of your grooves, or quantize them! , Create endless variations and fills out of a single loop! , Total Loop Control...
- Page 2 Ludvig Carlson, Anders Nordmark and Roger Wiklander. The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Propellerhead Software AB. The software described herein is subject to a License Agreement and may not be copied to any other media expect as specifically allowed in the License Agreement.
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Introduction Windows Installation Welcome to ReCycle 2.0! Requirements What can I do with ReCycle? Setting Up The Computer Copyright Issues Turning on your system About This Manual Finding your way on the ReCycle CD-ROM Installing the Acrobat Reader Macintosh Installation Installing ReCycle Setting Up The Sampler, MIDI and SCSI Requirements... - Page 5 The ReCycle Window Transmit and Sampler Options Window Overview Selecting a Sampler to Transmit to Handling Windows Transmit and Memory Magnification, Song Position and Scrolling Transmit Options Waveform Display Options The Transmit dialog The View Menu Saving and Exporting The Edit Menu Context Menu Items Saving ReCycle Documents Exporting Files...
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Page 7: Introduction
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Page 8: Welcome To Recycle 2.0
Welcome to ReCycle 2.0! Copyright Issues First of all we’d like to thank you for purchasing ReCycle 2.0! You are now in The raw material with which you feed ReCycle is drum loops, grooves, break- possession of a unique tool which will be an enormous time saver and which will beats, or whatever sampled weirdness you find appropriate. -
Page 9: About This Manual
About This Manual MacOS vs. Windows The documentation is both for the MacOS and Windows versions of ReCycle 2.0. Most pictures show the Macintosh version but things are identically titled and positioned in both versions. Sometimes, a key command is different in the two versions. This is indicated like this: Hold down [Option] (Mac) / [Alt] (Win) and... - Page 10 INTRODUCTION...
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Page 11: Macintosh Installation
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Page 12: Requirements
Requirements Finding your way on the ReCycle CD-ROM To use ReCycle for Macintosh you need the following: • Any Power Macintosh with a CD-ROM drive and 16-bit audio. • 16 MB of RAM or more. Once you have turned on your system, insert the ReCycle CD-ROM and open it in the Finder. -
Page 13: Setting Up The Sampler, Midi And Scsi
Setting Up The Sampler, Launching ReCycle MIDI and SCSI 1. Locate your ReCycle program icon (in the new “ReCycle” folder on the hard disk, not on the CD-ROM) and double click on it. 2. The program prompts you to insert the ReCycle CD-ROM (if not al- If you don’t plan to use ReCycle with an external sampler connected ready in the drive). - Page 14 D D D D Although the built-in sound capabilities on a Macintosh computer D D D D The ASIO Control Panel may contain settings specific to your audio are of a high standard, there are professional samplers that are ca- card.
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Page 15: System Information
System Information SCSI This section indicates whether SCSI Manager 4.3 is installed (required for SCSI communication in ReCycle), and contains a pop-up menu where you can view the When ReCycle is running, you will find an additional item on the Apple menu, available SCSI buses. -
Page 16: Memory Setting And Audio Files
This menu item brings you directly to the ReCycle Support pages on the 5. Change the memory setting by clicking on it and typing in a new Propellerhead web site. Use this option if you are having trouble with ReCy- value. -
Page 17: Windows Installation
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Page 18: Requirements
Requirements Finding your way on the ReCycle CD-ROM To use ReCycle for Windows you need the following: • An Intel Pentium computer running at 66 MHz or faster. • A 800x600, 256 color monitor or better. Once you have turned on your system, insert the ReCycle CD-ROM and open it. At the root of the CD-ROM, you will find a file called “Read Me”. -
Page 19: Installing Recycle
Installing ReCycle Installing SCSI ReCycle works with any SCSI host adapter that is 100% Windows compatible. 1. On the CD-ROM, double click the icon named "Install ReCycle". Do not connect anything to the SCSI card until you have finished in- 2. -
Page 20: Read The Read Me File
Launching ReCycle Verifying that the Sampler is registered by Windows When Windows starts you should get an alert saying that “Windows has found new unknown hardware”. This indicates that Windows has found your sampler. 1. Locate the ReCycle entry on the Start menu and select it. The “Add New Hardware Wizard”... -
Page 21: Audio Settings
Audio Settings D D D D If there is no specific ASIO driver, you should select the Direct Sound driver for the audio hardware. This makes ReCycle communicate with the hardware via Direct Sound (a part of the Microsoft DirectX package). For this to be possible, you need to After launching ReCycle, you should open the Preferences dialog on the Edit have DirectX installed on your computer, and there must be a Direct Sound menu and check the Audio Card Driver settings. -
Page 22: Getting Help And Additional Info
Setting the Audio Card Buffer Getting Help and Additional Info ASIO If an ASIO driver is selected, there will be no “Buffer Size” slider in the Prefer- ences dialog. If you pull down the Help menu in ReCycle, you will find menu items for getting help, support and information: D D D D If you are using an ASIO driver specifically written for the audio hardware, you can in some cases make settings for the hardware by... - Page 23 Contacts System Information The next items on the Help menu allow you to contact Propellerhead Software If you select this item, a dialog will open, displaying information about your com- for support and more info. puter and the MIDI and SCSI configurations: For these items to be useful, you need to have a valid Internet con- nection and an Internet browser installed on your computer.
- Page 24 SCSI This section indicates which version of ASPI (the protocol for SCSI communica- tion under Windows) is installed. The pop-up menu contains a list of the avail- able SCSI buses. Copy to Clipboard Clicking this button copies the contents of the System Information dialog onto the Windows clipboard.
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Page 25: Quick Tour Of Recycle
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Page 26: How Recycle Works
Cycle file player (Dr. REX). In addition to playing back ReCycle files, Dr. REX al- program that can read REX2 files (such as Propellerhead Reason or Steinberg lows you to further process files with various synth parameters, to change the Cubase): pitch of individual slices and much more. -
Page 27: Using Recycle - Step By Step
Using ReCycle - Step By 4. In the window, click the Play button. You should now hear the entire loop, from start to end, repeating until you click the Stop button. As you can hear, the Drum Tools Demo loop has “dou- Step ble”... - Page 28 7. Drag the Left and Right Locators until the loop is exactly 1 bar long. D D D D By adjusting the Preview Tempo knob or typing in a new tempo di- The left locator should be positioned at the start of the loop, on the first slice rectly in the Preview Tempo field, you can change the tempo of the marker, and the right locator should positioned on the last slice marker.
- Page 29 14. Pull down the Sampler menu and select the top item on the menu 6. If you want to, you can also try customizing the loop by editing, re- (“Transmit to...”), depending on what you selected in the previous arranging and duplicating the events in the sequencer. step).
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Page 30: Exporting To File
Exporting to File Besides creating REX2 files for use in audio sequencers, or transmitting sepa- rate slices to samplers, ReCycle can be used to simply change the inherent properties of a file, like the tempo and/or the pitch for example. You can then ex- port the loop (as one sample - not as separate slices) and use it in any audio ap- plication or sampler. -
Page 31: Sampler Settings
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Page 32: The Sampler Settings Dialog
The Sampler Settings That a sampler is on the list doesn’t mean it’s set up correctly or even connected to the computer! ReCycle doesn’t automatically re- dialog move samplers from the list if they are not connected. You may temporarily disconnect your sampler between sessions, without having to set it up in ReCycle again. - Page 33 D D D D If a sampler is found, that isn’t properly connected, ReCycle will in- 2. Use the Model pop-up menu to select the sampler model you want form you of this and tell you what you need to do. to add.
- Page 34 Common to both protocols is the ability to send samples between any two de- D D D D MIDI settings. vices in a commonly recognized format. See the “Sampler and File Format Ref- If the selected sampler uses a MIDI connection, you will find settings for erence”...
- Page 35 Deleting a Sampler from the list If you wish to remove a sampler from the Sampler List, proceed as follows: 1. Pull down the Sampler pop-up menu and select the sampler you want to remove. 2. Click the “Delete...” button at the bottom of the dialog. 3.
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Page 37: Opening And Receiving Audio
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Page 38: About Sounds And Memory
About Sounds and Using Open Memory Whenever ReCycle displays audio in a window, it has to load it into the com- puter’s RAM memory. MacOS Note: If you want to be able to load a lot of sound files or if you want to have many windows open at the same time you will need to assign the program more memory. -
Page 39: File Information
File Information You will not be able to play a file under the following conditions: • If the file is in a format ReCycle doesn’t support. When you select a file in the list, information about file type, length, etc. is shown •... -
Page 40: Using Drag And Drop
Using Drag and Drop Receiving Audio from the Sampler ReCycle supports standard Drag and Drop. Proceed as follows: 1. In the Finder/Explorer, locate an audio file in one of the supported file formats. If you have an external sampler connected to the computer, ReCycle can receive the audio directly from it. -
Page 41: If The "Do You Want To Move The Left Locator
If the “Do you want to move the left locator...” dialog appears If you Open or Receive a sample, and there is no loop setting, or the loop start is just at the beginning of the sample, a dialog appears suggesting you should let the program move the Left Locator to the first slice point. - Page 42 OPENING AND RECEIVING AUDIO...
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Page 43: The Recycle Window
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Page 44: Window Overview
Window Overview Waveform Display Vertical Magnification Slice Marker Handle Thumbnail overview Tool Bar The left half of the Toolbar contains the following items: Open/Save Effect buttons Stop Slice Audition buttons Transmit as one Sample Preview toggle Play Tools Export Sound Sensitivity slider Gate Sensitivity... -
Page 45: Status Bar
Status Bar Toolbox The Status Bar is located at the bottom of the screen (MacOS) or at the bottom of the application window (Win). The leftmost area of the Status Bar displays the following: The Toolbox is located in the upper left corner of the toolbar. You select a tool D D D D If you point anywhere on the Toolbar, this area will display “ex- from the Toolbox by clicking on its icon. -
Page 46: Handling Windows
Handling Windows Using The Magnifying Glass Zooming in You can Open or Receive as many loops as RAM permits, and they will each ap- pear in a window. 1. Hold down [Command] (MacOS) / [Control] (Windows). • For more information about window handling, see the documentation that 2. -
Page 47: Waveform Display Options
Magnifying using the Thumbnail Overview Waveform Display D D D D The method of making up a rectangle with the [Command] key (Ma- Options cOS) / [Control] key (Windows), described above, can also be used in the thumbnail overview. This changes the zoom factor of the main waveform, not of the thumbnail it- You can customize the look of the Waveform window by using the settings at self. -
Page 48: The View Menu
The View Menu The Edit Menu The View menu features the following items that relate to how the waveform is The Edit menu features the following items: displayed: • You can use “Copy Loop” to copy the entire loop (i.e. all waveform data be- tween the left and right locators) to the clipboard. -
Page 49: Context Menu Items
Context Menu Items Slice Marker Strip Right-clicking (Windows) or [Ctrl]-clicking (MacOS) in different areas of the waveform display will bring up context-sensitive menus. The context menus will contain various items also found on the Edit and View menus, but there are some additional items that are only available via context menus. - Page 50 Slice Handles Right-clicking (Windows) or [Ctrl]-clicking (MacOS) directly on a slice handle, brings up a context menu with the following items: Menu Item Description Locked Toggles the “Locked” status on or off for the slice handle you click on. See page 56. Hidden Toggles the “Hidden”...
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Page 52: Audio Quality
Audio Quality Auditioning Slices ReCycle plays back audio directly from your computer, using the sound capabil- There are three methods you can use to audition Slices: ities of your specific computer (see the Installation chapters for more details). D D D D Using the mouse When transferred to a sampler, the sound is reproduced with the highest possi- When you move the mouse over the waveform area, the pointer turns into a ble fidelity by the sampler. -
Page 53: Preview Mode
Preview mode The current Slice is indicated in the ReCycle window by a dotted vertical Slice marker. The Preview function lets you audition the loop exactly as it will sound when transmitted to a sampler, or saved as a file. In Preview mode you can change the The current Slice pitch or tempo independently from each other, change the gain of the loop, add processing and more. - Page 54 4. Click the Envelope button, or select “Envelope” from the View menu. The Envelope panel appears below the main toolbar. Envelope allows you to adjust three parameters; Attack, Decay and Stretch (see the chapter “Pro- cessing Audio” for a full description of the Envelope parameters). This par- ticular file was saved with non-default Attack and Decay parameter settings, which means that the Envelope effect is already turned on.
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Page 55: Setting Slices And Loops
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Page 56: Using Sensitivity
Using Sensitivity Using the Hide tool Most of the time when working with ReCycle, you will want to cut your loop up You might run into situations where there are too many slices on the screen. You into slices. A slice is a section of the waveform, from one slice marker to the next. could of course reduce the Sensitivity to get rid of the slice markers you don’t want, but then other slice markers could disappear too, and this might not be de- sirable. - Page 57 Hiding several Slices at the same Time In the example above, the Sensitivity slider had to be set to a fairly high value to get the number of slices you see. But raising Sensitivity led to one unwanted If you have several slices selected (see below) they will all get hidden when you slice, splitting a sound in two.
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Page 58: Using The Lock Tool
Using the Lock Tool Unlocking Slices To unlock a locked Slice, simply click on it again with the Lock tool. The Lock tool is essentially the opposite of the Hide tool. If you lock a slice, by clicking on its marker with the Lock tool, it will stay even if you drag the Sensitiv- ity slider all the way to zero. -
Page 59: Selecting Slice Markers
Selecting Slice Markers Manual Slice Handling Slice markers need to be selected for some operations, like Silence Selected It is possible to add new, to move, and to delete slice markers manually. (see page 71 and page 84), or when moving and deleting slices (see “Manual Slice Handling”... - Page 60 Where do I place the Slice? Adding a Slice at any position D D D D If you hold down [Option] (MacOS) / [Alt] (Windows), the snap to Zoom in far enough for the display to clearly show how the cursor jumps be- zero crossing is disabled and you can add a slice at any position.
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Page 61: How Many Slices Do I Need
How many Slices do I Left and Right Locator — need? Setting the Loop Well, it depends... By dragging • If you plan to edit the loop a lot in your MIDI sequencer, you should try to get The left and right Locators can be dragged to set the Loop during playback. one slice per sound in the loop, or in some situations (very busy sections for example), one slice per eighth note or sixteenth note (to simplify editing in D D D D If you have no slices at all (if the Sensitivity slider is all the way to... -
Page 62: Tempo, Time Signature, Bars And Beats
Tempo, Time Signature, Bars and Beats Many of the operations in ReCycle require you to specify how long the loop be- tween the Locators actually is, meter-wise. This information is then used to cal- culate the tempo of the loop. Time Signature The Sign pop-up menu allows you to choose between a few of the more com- mon Time Signatures. -
Page 63: Processing Audio
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Page 64: About The Effects
About the Effects Activating Effects Effects can be active regardless of whether the panel is visible or not. There are two ways you can activate effects: ReCycle features three effect processors, Envelope, Equalizer, and Transient Shaper, that can be used to further manipulate audio loops. D D D D By clicking on the Effect On/Off button on an open panel. -
Page 65: Effect Parameters
Effect Parameters The Amount of Stretch The Stretch knob is used to set the amount of stretch as a percentage value. The percentage values tell you how much longer the entire sample will be after Envelope stretching. If you select the largest value (100%), for example, the slice will be- come twice its original length when transmitted to the samplerexported. - Page 66 Transient Shaper Equalizer The main Equalizer parameters. Transient Shaper parameters... Lo Cut and Hi Cut parameters..and the Gain meter. The Equalizer allows you to cut or boost selected frequencies to shape the over- The Transient Shaper is a type of attack/release envelope control, which pro- all sound quality.
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Page 67: The Process Menu
The Process Menu Convert to Mono This Process menu item will convert stereo files to mono. It is only selectable for stereo files. In addition to the three Effect processors, there are several other “offline” (non- realtime) audio processing functions available on the Process menu. You do not D D D D When this item is selected, a dialog appears asking which chan- have to use Preview mode to apply offline processing. -
Page 68: Additional Processing Items
Crop Loop Additional Processing D D D D Crop Loop allows you to trim files, by removing all audio data out- Items side the left and right locators. If you have set up a perfect loop with the locators, and the file contains audio outside this locator range you can use Crop Loop to remove this superfluous There are a number of additional real-time processing items available on the data. - Page 69 Gate Sensitivity Gate Sensitivity could be described as a type of noise gate. It is triggered (opened) by every active slice start, and closes for any material (in each slice) that falls below a set threshold. When you set the Gate Sensitivity so that the end part of the slice(s) fall below the threshold, the gated part of the waveform will be greyed out.
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Page 71: Transmit And Sampler Options
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Page 72: Selecting A Sampler To Transmit To
Selecting a Sampler to Transmit Options Transmit to On the Process menu, you will find two Transmit settings (or “options”); ”Trans- mit as One Sample” and “Silence Selected”. These options can also be toggled on or off using the two Transmit Option buttons on the Toolbar: To route the Receive and Transmit functions to a particular sampler, select it from lower section of the Sampler menu. -
Page 73: The Transmit Dialog
The Transmit dialog lution is to open the file in ReCycle, then slice it up and set the length of the loop using the normal techniques. Enter Preview mode, set the new tempo and/or pitch, and lastly export the file in it’s original format but with a new tempo and/or pitch etc. -
Page 74: Sample Rate
Program Name When should I change from the suggested sample rate? Lowering the sample rate will make the samples occupy less memory in the sam- Using this field you can specify a name for the Programs you are about to create pler, but it will also lower the fidelity of the recording (less high frequency mate- in the sampler. - Page 75 4. Transmit/Export the Program. A new Program is created in the sampler. It will get all the settings of the Template. The first slice will appear on the same key as where the first sam- ple in the Template was. If you use exactly the same name as the Template, the new Program may replace the Template.
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Page 77: Saving And Exporting
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Page 78: Saving Recycle Documents
Saving ReCycle Exporting Files Documents The Export Sound dialog is opened by selecting “Export...” on the File menu, or by clicking the Export Sound button. If you have opened an audio file and worked on the slices and other settings, you can save it as a ReCycle (REX2) document. -
Page 79: File Formats
File Formats Name Ext. Comment SoundFont 2 SoundFont is a file format for storing wavet- The File Format pop-up is where you select the file format you wish to export the Banks able synthesized sounds. Effectively, this file as. The following file formats are supported: turns an ordinary sound card into a sampler. -
Page 80: Export Settings
Export Settings 3. Make sure “Transmit as One Sample” is deactivated on the Process menu. 4. Select “Save”, from the File menu. 5. Specify a location and name for the file and save it. 6. Switch over to Cubase VST. You need version 5 or later (same for both the Mac and Windows platforms) to be able to import REX2 files. - Page 81 Normally you will create MIDI Files as a part of the transmission process (by clicking “MIDI File+Transmit” in the Transmit dialog). But if you only want to cre- ate a MIDI File (for example when using ReCycle to create “groove maps”), use the Export dialog and save as a Standard MIDI File.
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Page 83: Example Applications
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Page 84: Which Samples Will Work
Which Samples will work? The Simple Trim All. But although ReCycle does a very intelligent analysis of the sample to find The most basic thing you can do with ReCycle is to set a good loop point for a the individual “hits” or “sounds” in it, the sample has to meet some basic criteria sample and then transmit it to the Sampler, or export it as a file, without any slic- to enable the automatic algorithm to find all the individual sounds: ing or processing. -
Page 85: Slicing For Tempo Changes - Sampler And Rex
Slicing for Tempo Slicing for Tempo Changes - Sampler and Changes - Exporting to Audio File 1. Open or Receive the sample. In the previous example, the result was a number of slices - in a sampler keymap or contained in a REX2 file. However, if you plan to use the file in an application 2. -
Page 86: Slicing For Editing
Slicing for Editing Using Silence Selected If your main goal is to edit the loop, rather than changing its tempo, you may take Even if you don’t want to cut up a loop in slices, you can still use ReCycle to a slightly different approach compared with slicing for tempo changes: send different sounds in the loop to different outputs on your sampler to apply processing to only one drum in a loop for example. -
Page 87: Extracting A Groove
6. Select Export from the File menu and save as a Standard MIDI File. D D D D If you use Propellerhead’s Reason, applying a groove to existing music is a piece of cake. Just Import the MIDI File (or open a REX2 file - you can simply use the “To Track”... -
Page 88: Extracting Sounds
Extracting Sounds Using Loops with unusual length or cutting This can be used to extract single sounds (snares, hi-hats etc.) from a loop or other recording. It can also be very useful if you have recorded more than one drum loop into a file and want to save each one as a separate file. Sometimes you don’t have a full bar of a loop. -
Page 89: Index
Index D D D D... - Page 90 Acrobat Reader Effects Add Sampler Activating AIFF files Envelope Arrow Tool Equalizer Audio Buffer Size Opening Effect Panels Audio Card Driver Presets Audio Playback Transient Shaper Loop Export Groove MIDI File Memory for Export to ReCycle REX file Open dialog Extracting Sounds Setting up Slices...
- Page 91 Magnification RCY files Magnify To Fit Re-Analyze Memory Receive sample Allocating ReCycle Documents And Sounds ReCycle Export file Fragmentation of REX file Transmit and Export MIDI Connection (Macintosh) Sample Rate MIDI Connection (Win) Transmit MIDI Files Window title Exporting Groove Sampler Transmitting/Exporting Adding Automatically...
- Page 92 Slices Adding & Moving Manually Wave files Adding using Sensitivity Waveform Display Options Auditioning Window title Hiding Locking Selecting Zero Crossings Song Position Zooming Sound Designer II Sound Manager Audio Speaker tool Status Bar Stretch Support System Information Templates Tempo Calculated Changes, Slicing for Thumbnail...