ReCycle

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ReCycle is a piece of software used to change the tempo of piece of audio, especially drum loops, by slicing the sample.

There are various ways to change the tempo of sampled audio. You can timestretch, or accelerating or decelerating (ie pitch up or pitch down) a sample, but both methods can have drawbacks. Timestretching tends to create artifacts on transient-heavy material such as live drum kit recordings, whilst it is sometimes desired to control tempo and pitch independently.

ReCycle lets you create a REX file (or now a REX 2 file) by adding slice markers to your sample at each sonic attack point according to the time signature and length of the sample. The markers can be placed automatically or added/edited by hand. For example, in a basic drum loop, each kick, snare and hi-hat sound becomes individual samples, as opposed to one big loop.

From here, you can either can export each and every slice contained within the sample along with a MIDI file of the timing, or save as a REX/REX2 file. Some other applications can import these REX files, which contains all of the above slice information, plus retaining the respective timing of the loop. This allows loops to be played at any tempo, quantized, played manually, re-combined to make new loops and a host of other creative possibilities.

ReCycle also includes basic envelopes, a transient shaper and an equaliser.