Reason’s classic ReCycle is updated, free, and more useful than you might think

ReCycle, the sample/loop manipulator by Reason Studios, has a refreshed new look – and now it’s free. The REX format works everywhere from Ableton Live to Pro Tools to KORG Gadget. Also – wait, did its name start as a reference to a 1993 Disney instructional video?

Ableton Note 1.3 adds MIDI editor in free update – an ideal Move companion

Ableton Note 1.3 for iOS adds the ability to sequence beats, drums, and chords in a compact MIDI editor. And while oddly Ableton doesn’t talk about it, the combination of Note and Ableton’s Move hardware is an appealing one-two mobile punch.

Peter Kirn - April 2, 2025

Live 12.2: hands-on guide to Meld, Roar, Auto Filter, workflow updates, more

Ableton Live 12.2 is in public beta today, with some major welcome features. Bouncing is easier, Auto Filter gets its biggest update since it came out, and there are new generative harmonic features, Meld and Roar updates, Push enhancements, and more. Here’s your guide.

Peter Kirn - March 12, 2025

Chop, gliss, LFO, filter, select: Sonic Bloom explains Live 12.1 MIDI tools

Peter Kirn - October 21, 2024

Ableton Live 12.1 is in public beta, and it’s a huge release for Live

Peter Kirn - July 2, 2024

M4, iPads, Pencil, Final Cut and Logic – everything Apple just announced

Peter Kirn - May 8, 2024

Live 12 is here, including Performance Pack and new tuning site

Peter Kirn - March 5, 2024

Field system, completed: Teenage Engineering TP-7 recorder test

Andreas Roman - December 27, 2023

Any level, including guitars, in Eurorack: Nive Grad level shifter

Peter Kirn - November 20, 2023

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