The user interface is ridiculously simple, the software supports 16-bit sound within your Mac via Sound Manager 3.0, and you can even save completed grooves to disk. Not only does it remove the tedious process of making a sampled loop fit the groove of a song, it lets you remove and replace sounds as you desire, send sounds for individual processing or mixing, alter the feel or ambience of a loop, and even change the pitch of certain sounds to suit your song. The creative possibilities such a process provides for the musician, programmer, DJ, or producer are staggering. Alternatively, you can load the MIDI file created by ReCycle into a sequencer and play the entire loop (which is now composed of individual 'slices') back as part of an existing sequence. The end result is that you can play each constituent sound in a loop individually on your keyboard. ReCycle! then assigns each slice to a MIDI note number, creates a key map, and transmits the whole lot back to your sampler as sample files and program (playback) data. The user can alter the number of 'slices' produced, and their individual 'thicknesses', by changing the resolution of the analysis. The software then analyses the loop, and breaks it into its constituent rhythmic components, known as 'slices' - hence those dodgy references to Japanese chefs in the brochure. ReCycle! works by allowing you to load samples into the RAM of your Apple Mac over SCSI from a supported sampler (at the moment, Akai 1000/3000 series or SampleCell, but not Roland or Ensoniq formats).
the list of features is truly incredible. You can alter the tempo of a groove, replace sounds, normalise levels, change pitches, send individual sounds to individual outputs on your sampler. Basically, ReCycle! lets you do with sampled loops what you can normally do only with beats programmed from individual drum sounds. So what does it do? Well, as with most 'ground-breaking' pieces of musical kit, summarising the functions of ReCycle! in a single, well-turned phrase is far from easy. It's innovative, it's clever, it's useful, and you'll want a copy as soon as you see it in action. Keith Floyd influences aside, ReCycle! looks set to be one of this year's major software successes. If you want to sell software, create a few bizarre analogies with Oriental cuisine. "As in Japanese cooking, it's all in the slicing." So opens the brochure for Steinberg's latest piece of Macintosh wizardry for the sample-based musician. Loop scoop: Steinberg's 'Recycle!' breaks cover Recycle! analyses an incoming loop and then 'slices' it into its component parts the 'slices' are clearly shown on this screen grab
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