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Type: Time/pitch-stretching/looping software
Platform: Mac OS X, Windows 2000/XP
Price: $229 (free upgrade to registered 2.0 users)
Contact: Propellerhead, www.propellerheads.se
Minimum requirements: (Mac) Power Mac G3, 128MB RAM, Mac OS X 10.2.8; (Windows) 300MHz Pentium, 128MB RAM, Windows 2000/XP
Copy protection: Serial number provided with CD (or download)
Version reviewed: 2.1
Demo: Downloadable Mac/PC demos
Hosts with REX file support: Reason, Logic Audio 6, Cubase VST 5 and SX, Nuendo 2, Digital Performer 4, Project5, Mixman Studio
Samplers with REX support: EXS24 and EXS24mkII, HALion, Mach5, Kontakt, Intakt, Kompakt, Battery, Orion, Unity Session, AS-1, SampleTank, Akai S-5000/6000/Z-series
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ReCycle 2.1 creates time-stretchable loops of digital audio files, particularly percussive material, by "slicing" the file into discrete sections of audio (e.g., kick, kick+share, hi-hat, etc.). The faster you play these back in sequence, the faster the loop; playing back more slowly slows the tempo. With the right audio - no ambience, clean percussive transients, and no sustained sounds - the results can be indistinguishable from the original over a fairly wide range (pitch can also be...