---
name: "freecycle"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "freecycle"
version: "0.6.1.1alpha-1+b1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/freecycle"
---

# freecycle(1)

beat slicer

## NAME

freecycle - beat slicer

## SYNOPSIS

**freecycle**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **freecycle** command.

**freecycle** is a beat slicer, providing amplitude domain and frequency domain beat matching / zero crossing algorithms. It exports sliced audio chunks and generates a MIDI file which can be used to play the sliced loop. Freecycle also exports AKAI S5000/S6000/Z4/Z8 .AKP file to be used with your favorite sampler.

## SEE ALSO

[**audacity**(1)](/audacity/1.md), [**sox**(1)](/sox/1.md).\

## AUTHOR

Freecycle was written by Predrag Viceic.

This manual page was written by Gürkan Sengün \<gurkan@phys.ethz.ch\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).