The year is 1994 and Bad Bunny has just been born. Apart from this, the pilot episode of Friends has just debuted on NBC, Nelson Mandela has been elected president of South Africa and you’re a young and aspiring producer who has just gotten your hands on something special. A cardboard box, still warm from the UPS truck, sits patiently in the middle of your room waiting to be unboxed. You tear at the packing tape in an attempt to obey the call of this cardboard box, eventually tearing through to the CD ROM case. History has been written, and you don’t even know it. The way of making sample-based music has changed forever, and you buying this piece of hardware makes you a tiny part of it. You pick up the CD. You read it.
It says ‘ReCycle by Propellerhead – The Perfect Tool for Sampled Grooves’.
Fast forward some 30 years and ‘the perfect tool for sampled grooves’ became ‘the old-school-tool for sampled grooves’. Hardware became software, and software became the seamless combination of plugins we take for granted in our DAW:s today.
But back then, this tool was the go-to for producing grassroots electronic genres of the 90s. Back then it was revolutionary. In other words, re-releasing ReCycle won’t change history. It already did. These days it’s 50% iconic loopcutter, 50% time capsule back to what life used to be like as a music producer in the late 90s. And it holds up.
Since ReCycle has already survived 30 years, we figured we’d shoot for another 30. So, in this patch we’re making it compatible with Apple Silicon and Windows on ARM, along with some back-end stuff for general performance.
Before giving our beloved sample tool a facelift, we had to ask ourselves “does ReCycle have a place in today’s musical landscape?”.
We think it does. And even if it didn’t, ReCycle just refuses to die. Many people still swear by ReCycle as their go-to sample tool, and given the cultural time capsule that it is today we want new generations of producers to be able to experience what the workflow was like 30 years ago.
So, we made it free to use. Maybe you’ll fall in love with its old-school workflow. Maybe you’ll use it once, smile, and go back to your usual sample tool. Either way, we’re giving everyone a chance to experience a tool that helped shape modern sampling into what it is today. And it’s a pretty fantastic tool. We’ve come to know it as the sample tool that refuses to die.
It says ‘ReCycle by Propellerhead – The Perfect Tool for Sampled Grooves’.
Fast forward some 30 years and ‘the perfect tool for sampled grooves’ became ‘the old-school-tool for sampled grooves’. Hardware became software, and software became the seamless combination of plugins we take for granted in our DAW:s today.
But back then, this tool was the go-to for producing grassroots electronic genres of the 90s. Back then it was revolutionary. In other words, re-releasing ReCycle won’t change history. It already did. These days it’s 50% iconic loopcutter, 50% time capsule back to what life used to be like as a music producer in the late 90s. And it holds up.
Since ReCycle has already survived 30 years, we figured we’d shoot for another 30. So, in this patch we’re making it compatible with Apple Silicon and Windows on ARM, along with some back-end stuff for general performance.
Before giving our beloved sample tool a facelift, we had to ask ourselves “does ReCycle have a place in today’s musical landscape?”.
We think it does. And even if it didn’t, ReCycle just refuses to die. Many people still swear by ReCycle as their go-to sample tool, and given the cultural time capsule that it is today we want new generations of producers to be able to experience what the workflow was like 30 years ago.
So, we made it free to use. Maybe you’ll fall in love with its old-school workflow. Maybe you’ll use it once, smile, and go back to your usual sample tool. Either way, we’re giving everyone a chance to experience a tool that helped shape modern sampling into what it is today. And it’s a pretty fantastic tool. We’ve come to know it as the sample tool that refuses to die.
