Hi Eric and happy new year! sounds like you guys have crazy stuff up your sleeves for 2003... my questions about stylus are: can I chop my own loops in there? if not now, is that coming in the future? if not, can I load rex2 files? If not, is there a stand alone app, like recycle that will chop and output groove control files? (special tools???) Since I've been using recycle for like, forever, I am experienced enough to chop my own loops and if I bought Stylus I'd like to use it like that mainly as half the fun of inventing a new sound for a record (for me at least) is recording and chopping my own sounds. thanks, Teddy Kumpel > the quality of Groove Control is > much higher and more reliable than only ReCycle can do. The > reason is because we use a lot of special techniques to create > seamless slices, including some special tools and a lot of > experience and painstaking work to create these GC files. > > With something like ReCycke, you can get good results > sometimes, but not always...and it can be a huge amount of > work. Grove Control products have been around for a few years > now too, and were available in stereo a couple of years before > ReCycle 2 came out. > > So Groove Control products like Stylus are "pre-sliced" yes....but > they are also a great deal higher in quality and flexibility because > of the way that we create the Groove Control files. The result is > better than any other slicing method because you can > seamlessly slow down the grooves by quite a bit more than the > average REX file. (This is also a big difference compared to > Phatmatic Pro, which is a great product, but currently cannot > slow down a groove without gaps). > > Also, you'll see the > integration of the software and samples in Stylus do some really > new stuff in 2003...since we have our own software instrument > now, we can make it do all kinds of new things in the future, that > will further separate it from what the traditional REX method has > offered in the past. > > Happy New year! > > EP from Spectrasonics