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Yeah, I agree that Recycle didn't seem the best option for such things, but I love Stylus RMX and that can pretty much only deal with it's own format or .rex files, so I'm stuck. Mark --- Andreas Wetterberg <awetterberg@post.cybercity.dk> wrote: > as far as I know the Rex format is so proprietary > that other apps can't > generate it. In other words, it sucks. > > There are tons of other options, though - some are > heaps better than > Recycle, even. Here are a couple: > > 1) Phatmatik Pro. It's a vsti plugin that can slice > any wavefile and it > can be used to play it back. It's an awesome > product, and it's now being > developed by the equally awesome iZotope people. > It's 149$, has filters, envelopes, all of that. It > even stores the > slice-information inside a file that can be read as > a regular wavefile - > so no .rex file redundancy going on. > www.izotope.com > > 2) vSampler. It's a full vsti sampler, and it can > run in rewire mode as > a standalone if you so desire. The beat-slicing is > so efficient that > it's unbelievable. It's no problem slicing up a > bunch of loops and > placing them after each other across the keyboard. > It's 149€, immensely cool, and can be found here: > www.vsampler.com > > I started with ReCycle. realized that I hated it, > switched to Phatmatik, > which I still own and love, and then I found out > that I needed massive > amounts of sample-mappings in my set, so I upgraded > to vSampler. > > Compare those to recycle, which is flippin' 229 > euros! Eeek! > So even though you won't be able to play it in > Stylus, you'd be getting > more options at a lower price. > > just my 0.02€. > Andreas > > > > Per Boysen wrote: > > On 29 apr 2006, at 01.37, mark sottilaro wrote: > > > >> I have a ton of drum loop samples I've purchased > over > >> the years and now I'm finding with Stylus RMX it > will > >> accept REX files made in Recycle. It seems kind > of > >> silly to get the entire program when all I > actually > >> want is to convert a few cds of loops over. > Anyone > >> know of another app that will do the conversion? > > > > > > Hi Mark, > > > > As far as I know buying ReCycle is the quickest > way to create REX files. > > Or bringing your CD's and USB stick somewhere > where they have ReCycle > > and let you sit down for an hour to do all the > conversions. > > > > It's too bad Stylus RMX can not import audio > unless being converted into > > REX, but if you have a lot of material it's worth > the effort. I am very > > happy that I did that effort last year to convert > a recording session > > with a percussionist (many african instruments > played and recorded) as > > well as my own old guitar sampling CD. The loops > really grow into new > > dimension when mangled in RMX. This is also true > for tonal/melodic > > material, not just drum loops. > > > > Greetings from Sweden > > > > Per Boysen > > www.boysen.se (Swedish) > > www.looproom.com (international) > > http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) > > > > > > > > > > > > . > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com