User manual PROPELLERHEAD RECYCLE 2.0

[. . . ] , www. propellerheads. se Made in Sweden Version 2. 0 , Operation Manual Change the tempo of a groove without altering its pitch ­ and vice versa!, Change the feel of your grooves, or quantize them!, Create endless variations and fills out of a single loop!, Total Loop Control Operation Manual by Synkron: Ludvig Carlson, Anders Nordmark and Roger Wiklander. [. . . ] Hold down [Command] (MacOS) / [Control] (Windows) and press and hold the mouse button in the waveform display. The area inside the rectangle becomes dark. Release the mouse button. The selected area will now fill the entire window. If you click or drag in the horizontal magnification indicator, the amount of horizontal zoom changes. Furthermore, the indicator will always show the current magnification. The Vertical Magnification Indicator If you click or drag in the vertical magnification indicator, the amount of vertical zoom changes. The vertical scale is displayed in decibel, and the zoom factor changes in steps of 6 dB. Minimum zoom will show 0 dB as the top and bottom waveform amplitude boundaries in the window, the next factor will show -6, and so on. Zooming in on a certain area. THE RECYCLE WINDOW 44 Magnifying using the Thumbnail Overview D The method of making up a rectangle with the [Command] key (MacOS) / [Control] key (Windows), described above, can also be used in the thumbnail overview. This changes the zoom factor of the main waveform, not of the thumbnail itself. Waveform Display Options You can customize the look of the Waveform window by using the settings at the bottom of the Preferences dialog: Zooming in using the thumbnail. Scrolling using the Thumbnail When zoomed in on the waveform, the Thumbnail Overview will display a dark rectangular area indicating which part of the waveform is now shown in the main waveform display. This rectangle can be dragged sideways, which scrolls the waveform display. You can also click anywhere in the Thumbnail Overview to move the rectangle to that position. The "View stereo files as sum of L+R" Option Dragging the Thumbnail rectangle. The Scroll Bar The scroll bar can be used to scroll the view of the waveform. To make the size of stereo files in the ReCycle window more compact, the left and right channels of stereo files can be summed to one channel, instead of being stacked on top of each other. Note that this is a display option only, the actual audio material is not affected in any way. Waveform Look Use this pop-up menu to select one of three different waveform "looks"; Plain, 3D or Shaded. Plain displays the waveform with normal graphics, 3D adds a depth effect to the graphics and Shaded adds a progressive shade to the lower part of the waveform. Waveform Color Click this button to select a new color for the waveform. On the Macintosh, this brings up the standard Apple Color Picker, under Windows this brings up the standard Windows Color dialog. The color field to the right shows you the current color selection. Contrast Slider This slider sets the amount of contrast between the background display and the waveform. For maximum contrast, position the slider all the way to the right. Moving the slider to the left progressively adds more of the chosen waveform color to the background display. THE RECYCLE WINDOW 45 The View Menu The View menu features the following items that relate to how the waveform is displayed: The Edit Menu The Edit menu features the following items: · You can use "Copy Loop" to copy the entire loop (i. e. all waveform data between the left and right locators) to the clipboard. · If the clipboard contains data, this can be pasted into a new (automatically created) document window by using the "Paste as New Document" menu item. · "Delete" can be used to delete selected slice markers. Select All and Invert Selection are explained on page 57. Magnify to Fit/Magnify to fit Loop If you select Magnify to Fit from the View menu, the display will zoom out so that the entire sample fits the window. If Magnify to Fit Loop is selected, the display will zoom in (or out) so that the area between the left and right locators will fit the window. Jump to Cursor If this is selected, the window will scroll to the current play position, maintaining the current magnification factor. Undo/Redo You may be able to Undo your last action by selecting this menu item or by pressing [Command] (MacOS)/[Ctrl] (Windows)-[Z] (the default key command for Undo). The menu item also gives you a clue about what will be undone. For example: If it says "Undo Delete Slice(s)" the last thing you did was deleting a slice. [. . . ] Use the "To Track" function in Dr. Rex for one of the loops, and select the resultant MIDI notes in the sequencer. Now select "Get User Groove" on the Edit menu. Now you can quantize the other loop's MIDI note data using the User Groove (see the Reason manual for details). [. . . ]