User manual PROPELLERHEAD RECYCLE 2.1

[. . . ] , www. propellerheads. se Made in Sweden Version 2. 1 , 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. [. . . ] Try stepping through the loop with the "Play Slice and Move to Next" button, and adjust the Slices until you hear them the way you want them. Another good practice is to increase magnification slightly and scroll through the slices to look for sounds that have been split unnecessarily. For optimal results, combine the two techniques above. . . . mutes all of them. Unmuting Slices To "re-activate" a muted Slice, simply click on it again with the Mute tool. When do I use the Mute tool? Use the Mute tool when you have a situation like the one below: This slice is probably not wanted. SETTING SLICES AND LOOPS 45 Using the Lock Tool The Lock tool is essentially the opposite of the Mute tool. If you lock a slice, by clicking on its marker with the Lock tool, it will stay even if you drag the Sensitivity slider all the way to zero. Unlocking Slices To unlock a locked Slice, simply click on it again with the Lock tool. When do I use the Lock tool? If you got a good set of slices by just using the Sensitivity slider, but discover that in one or two places you hear two sounds when you click on a slice, then it is time to bring out the Lock tool. Find the place where you hear two sounds when auditioning. Make a mental note of the current slider setting. Set the sensitivity slider to a higher value to get a slice between the two sounds. If a slice is locked. . . 4. Audition to make sure you got what you wanted. Drag the sensitivity slider to the original setting. . . . it will stay even if you set Sensitivity to zero. Locking several Slices at the same time If you have several slices selected (see below) they will all get locked when you click on one of them. Clicking on one of the selected slices. . . . . . locks all of them. 46 SETTING SLICES AND LOOPS Selecting Slice Markers Slice markers need to be selected for some operations, like Silence Selected (see page 76 and page 68), or when moving and deleting slices (see "Manual Slice Handling" in this chapter): D Selecting is done with the Arrow Tool. You can have the Pencil Tool selected, but this automatically changes to the Arrow tool if you point in the Marker strip. D You can select one marker by clicking on its triangle symbol. D If you hold down [Shift], you can click on more markers to select them. Clicking again with [Shift] pressed deselects a marker. Manual Slice Handling It is possible to add new, to move, and to delete slice markers manually. ! Before adding or moving slices manually, make absolutely sure the slices found by the analyze algorithm don't suffice. The program is very good at finding slice points, and the points found by the program often work better ­ for example for tempo changes ­ than the ones that you can find manually. Adding a new slice 1. Identify the area where you need a slice, and zoom in very close on it. Move the pointer over the waveform display. A vertical line moves across the waveform. This line indicates where the slice will appear when you click. The line snaps to zero crossings in the waveform (positions where the amplitude is close to zero), so manually added slices won't introduce any clicks or pops. If the amplitude is zero for a period of time, the line will move continuously over this area. Selected and unselected markers. D You can make up a selection rectangle by pointing between slices in the Marker strip, pressing the mouse button and dragging left or right. When you release the mouse button, all the slices inside the rectangle will get selected. Making up a rectangle like this. . . . . . selects these markers. D You can use the Select All item on the Edit menu to select all markers. [. . . ] Just Import the MIDI File (or open a REX2 file - you can simply use the "To Track" function to create MIDI data from the REX2 file) in Reason and select "Get User Groove" from the Edit menu. Quantizing Audio If you have sliced a groove or other recording, you can apply quantizing to it in the sequencer, if you like. ! Always use at least a small amount of Stretch, to avoid the gaps between slices that might otherwise occur. Please note that if you have two REX2 loops in Reason, applying the timing of one of them to the other is really easy. 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. [. . . ]