User Manual

OPENING AUDIO FILES

About Sounds and

Memory

Whenever ReCycle displays audio in a window, it has to load it into the com-

puter’s RAM memory.

How much audio you can load into the program at one time depends on how

much memory you have in your computer (total) and how much of it that other

programs are currently using. If the program tells you there is not enough mem-

ory for a certain operation, or if you can’t open an audio file (in any of the sup-

ported formats), the first thing to try is to quit other programs.

You can open files (mono or stereo) that are up to five minutes in length. To

open a five minute stereo file ReCycle has to have access to 52 MByte of RAM.

About REX2 Files

REX2 is the native file format of ReCycle. Saving a file in this format will signifi-

cantly reduce the size of the file. This is achieved by applying a compression al-

gorithm to the file when saved. The compression is “non-lossy” meaning that it

does not compromise the audio quality in any way. How much the file will be

compressed compared to the original size depends on the complexity of the au-

dio and other factors. When you open a REX2 file, the file information in the

Open dialog will tell you how much the size has been reduced, expressed as a

ratio (see page 27).

Using Open

The Open dialog.

The Open item on the File menu is used to load audio files from the hard disk.

The dialog box is a standard file dialog with some additions.