User Guide

402 Chapter 25 EXS24 mkII
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The EXS24 mkII generates a zone for each slice of the imported ReCycle file, and assigns
these zones to one group (see “Editing Zones and Groups” for more information on
zones and groups). The new EXS instrument will be assigned the name of the ReCycle
loop. Should an EXS instrument of that name already exist, a # sign and a number will
be appended. In other words, if you import a ReCycle file named Tricky Backbeat but
Tricky Backbeat already exists as a sampler instrument, the imported instrument would
be named Tricky Backbeat#2, ensuring that the filename is unique within the Sampler
Instruments folder.
In addition, a MIDI region is generated on the currently selected track, at the current
project position (rounded to whole bars). This MIDI region is used to trigger the
imported slices at the timing defined by the ReCycle file. You can generate new MIDI
regions at any time from the imported EXS instrument (see “Generating a MIDI Region
From a ReCycle Instrument” on page 403), so feel free to modify or delete it.
The Extract MIDI Region and Add Samples to Current Instrument command allows you
to add the slices of a ReCycle loop to any EXS instrument currently opened in the
Instrument Editor. This allows you to use several different ReCycle loops in a single
sampler instrument.
Assigning the Complete ReCycle Loop to a Zone
The Instrument > ReCycle Convert > Slice Loop and Make New Instrument command
creates an EXS instrument from a ReCycle loop, in which each zone plays back the
ReCycle loop to its very end (at the current project tempo), starting with the slice
points originally assigned to the respective zones. In other words, the lowest zone will
play back the entire loop, and the highest zone will only play the last slice of the loop.
This kind of loop trigger techniques allow for old school drum’n’bass style triggering, in
which the sample loop start point is determined by playing the respective notes on the
keyboard.
The Instrument > ReCycle Convert > Slice Loop and Add Samples to the Current
Instrument command adds the zones from the sliced loop to the currently active
sampler instrument.
Pasting Loops From the Clipboard
The Edit > Paste ReCycle Loop as New Instrument command creates an EXS instrument
from a ReCycle loop that has been copied into the Clipboard via ReCycle’s Copy Loop
facility.
The instrument creation is identical to the Extract MIDI Region and Make New
Instrument command.
The Edit > Paste ReCycle Loop to Current Instrument command adds the zones to the
currently active sampler instrument.