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QUICK TOUR OF RECYCLE

7. Drag the Left and Right Locators until the loop is exactly 1 bar long.

The left locator should be positioned at the start of the loop, on the first slice

marker, and the right locator should positioned on the last slice marker. This

last slice contains the “extra” downbeat (see step 4), but as the Right Loca-

tor position governs when the loop should jump back to the Left Locator, this

second downbeat won’t be played, and the loop will now be exactly 1 bar.

8. With playback turned off, move the pointer over the waveform view.

The pointer changes to a speaker symbol.

9. Click with the Speaker pointer on the slices in the waveform view.

You will hear each individual sound in the loop. The slice you clicked last is indi-

cated by a dotted vertical line to the left - this slice is called the Current Slice.

You can also drag the pointer over the slices with the mouse button pressed to

audition the sounds in the loop.

10. Click in the “Bars” field, type “1”, and hit [Return].

The calculated tempo is now shown as the “Orig. Tempo” on the Toolbar.

The Bars/Beats settings, the (calculated) Original Tempo and the Preview Tempo field.

11. Click on the Preview Toggle button.

Preview mode is now activated.

Now you can make various settings to the loop, and hear the results in real-time.

Preview mode lets you hear exactly how the loop will sound after being saved as

a file:

By adjusting the Preview Tempo knob or typing in a new tempo di-

rectly in the Preview Tempo field, you can change the tempo of the

loop.

If you intend to play back the loop as a REX2 file in a sequencer, the loop will

follow the tempo setting of the sequencer, regardless of this setting!

By adjusting the Pitch knob you can change the pitch of the loop.

There is a Gate function which can be used to remove all sound in a

loop that falls below a set threshold.

This is described on page 56.

In addition there are three effect processors; Envelope, EQ and

Transient Shaper, that allow you to further tweak the sound of the

loop before exporting/saving it as a file.

The processors are described in the chapter “Processing Audio”.

So, now we have everything we need, a perfect loop, a tempo, possibly some

audio processing parameters, and a good set of slices. You could at this point

simply save the sliced-up loop as a REX2 file and import this file into a compati-

ble program.

✪ There is an additional ReCycle tutorial in the ReCycle + Reason

Quick Start Guide. This is based on a different audio file and pro-

vides some extra tips on how to correctly slice up a file.

The Locators set up correctly.