ReCycle is a

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editor designed and developed by Swedish software developers

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. It runs on

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and

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based PCs. The software debuted in 1994. The principal idea of ReCycle is to alter the

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of a music loop without changing its pitch or otherwise altering its sound. ReCycle does this by "slicing" loops into a series of separate "beats" or "hits" and altering their timing (or even quantizing them) without altering the length of the individual slices, thus allowing the loop to play at a different speed whilst using the unmodified sounds for each individual slice/drum hit, a process which fully preserves the original pitch of the loop while allowing a great variety of speed/timing tweaks. ReCycle can also assign each successive slice to a respective

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note on a scale. ReCycle was the first program to popularize the idea of loop slicing. Propellerhead developed their own file format for this software: REX, and later

REX2 REX2 is a proprietary type of audio sample loop file format developed by Reason Studios, a Swedish music software company. It is one of the most popular and widely supported loop file formats for sequencer and digital audio workstation so ...

(.RX2) adding support for

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files, which has become a standard for music loops and is compatible with many third party programs, including Logic Pro, MOTU Digital Performer, and

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. Propellerhead's

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has its own specialised REX2 playing device called the Dr. Octorex Loop Player. In versions prior to Reason 5.0, it was supported in the Dr.REX Loop Player. This device can play slices when requested or simply play the entire loop in sequence. ReCycle was originally developed in conjunction with Steinberg,Farrer, P. 1995. Super Looper. ''Sound on Sound''. Volume 10, Issue 7. Available online

Accessed: 24 August 2007. although version 2 was solely a Propellerhead release. An update to ReCycle, version 2.2, was released in October 2011. It adds 64-bit support as well as no longer requiring Rosetta (binary translation software), Rosetta on

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(as it was removed in OS X 10.7). It also removed support for older file formats such as Sound Designer II, Mixman, SampleCell and Akai (.aka) files.

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