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RE: 50th anniversary of realtime looping?
Mati wrote,
> certainly they glued tape to loops in the 50ies, so studio looping is
> older as far as I understood, Les Paul brought ready tapes to stage and
> lovelooping started with the two tape machine idea
"lovelooping" yes :) it started with the two tape machines in 1963. And
yes, as I wrote in that essay, of course loops (static) are much older but
they are something completely different - more like a pre-digital way to
sample. Les Paul was probably faking his "live" multitracking, there was a
discussion about this on LD:
http://www.loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200211/msg00922.html
-Michael