The integrated software studio has been the coming thing for quite some time, but Propellerhead's Reason, the bargain setup just described, is creating a buzz that only happens when a product has really tapped into the zeitgeist, and may just be the one that many of us have been waiting for. What would you say if £300 could buy you a complete electronic music studio, comprising a 14‑input automated digital mixer, 99‑note polyphonic 'analogue' synth, classic Roland‑style drum machine, sample‑playback unit, analogue‑style step sequencer, loop player, multitrack sequencer, eight effects processors, and over 500Mb of excellent synth patches and samples? OK - there's a catch. Derek Johnson & Debbie Poyser bolt a few virtual devices into the virtual rack. Industrious Swedish company Propellerhead are well known for their virtual instruments, but now they've made an entire software studio. Of course, not all of these fit on a computer screen at the same time.

Installation under Mac OS is now drag and drop (no installer).įor further Information, please visit: Of Power: stack just one of each of Reason's devices for a dream software rack.

The authorization system and copy protection has been changed, reducing the risk of having to reauthorize the program.

We have removed support for the Sound Designer II, Mixman, and SampleCell formats since these are all outdated.

Open Recent (documents) is now a sub-menu on Mac OS.

The Preference dialog has been streamlined and updated.

You can now use the Q, W, E and R keys to select tools, just like in Reason.

The Waveform now indicates graphically what sound will be played back, by dimming silent sections.

Also, when importing audio files created in Record or Reason, the tempo information in those files is used for setting tempo and length in ReCycle.

When exporting AIFF and Wave files, Record/Reason-style tempo information is now included in the file.

Some redundant controls have been removed and others added. Scrolling is smoother and you can now zoom in further.

The main window has been redesigned, with new zooming and scrolling.

ReCycle 2.2 is a true Cocoa program under Mac OS and fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

The program is now fully compatible with 64 bit operating systems.

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