EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Howdy,

The Groove Control™ system in Stylus works off the same 
"slicing" principle as ReCycle, but 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).

The video states that Stylus is the world's first Groove Control 
virtual instrument....that's all. The integration of the Stylus 
software engine, with all the GC files offers some unique 
capabilities, including the ability to completely transform each 
slice independantly...which is pretty cool. 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. 

I'm the first to say that we didn't invent the "slicing" idea...credit for =

that should go to the props.....with Groove Control, we just 
figured out how to make that idea a lot better, and will continue to 
develop it more and more in the future!

Hope that clarifies the origins of Stylus and Groove Control. I 
don't think we ever said "revolutionary"....but I'm sure some 
Stylus users have said so....

Happy New year!

EP from Spectrasonics

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "darealbasoski 
<mail@o...>" <mail@o...> wrote:
> in the demo-video of Stylus it's presented as an incredibly 
> powerfull thing, which I'm sure it is, but what in the WORLD 
has 
> a gadget such as this one (and the obvious tons of clones to 
> follow) have to offer that is actually new??? Isn't this a 
simplyfied 
> way of mangling loops till they fit nicely and make up a new 
one?
> 
> Well then...
> ...excuse me for asking, but isn't that what a lot of us have been 
> doing allready for years? Are Spectrasonics not just offering a 
> slick-interfaced Recycle-clone here? Where'd they find the guts 
> to actually go out and tell the world they've done an amazing 
> discovery...?
> 
> Personaly I've been using Recycle eversince version 1.0 and I 
> doubt it's ever going to leave my Mac, but isn't this sort of a 
> 'Preset-Recycle'...?
> Oh well, at least the price is pretty tight, 3gig's worth of sample 
> material is always an excuse to go for it anyway.
> 
> Just had to get this off my chest:)
> Happy Stylussing,
> O.