Live looping

Live looping is the recording and playback of looped audio samples in real-time, using either hardware (magnetic tape or dedicated hardware devices) or software. It is a process with numerous sonic directions, open to instrument textures, improvisation and composition techniques.

Information Sources

• Loopers Delight - information for live loopers, gear reviews, techniques etc.
• livelooping.org - collection of info + links to videos

Articles & Interviews

• Frippertronics - Robert Fripp interview.
• The Musical Use of Audio Delay Devices: Some Thoughts for the Future and From the Past - by Ben Denckla.
• Enhance Your Solo Performance With Live-Looping - by Arthur Lee Land

Live looping festivals

• Y2K International Live Looping Festival - Santa Cruz and San Francisco, California.
• Norwich Festival of Live Looping
• International Loopfestival Köln, Berlin...
• International Loopfestival Zürich - Zürich, Switzerland.
• Cambridge Festival of Looping - Cambridge, UK.
• Looper's Delight J - Kobe, Japan.
• 1st Swedish Looping Festival 2003 - Sweden.

Live looping software

• Live Loop - A multi-track live looping midi-sequencer.
• Zone Mobius - standalone freeware (multichannel)
• ELOTTRONIX XL - VST freeware, tape delay emulator
• Ambiloop - standalone freeware(?) (multichannel)
• Loopy Llama VST freeware
• SooperLooper standalone freeware (as JACK client) or as Audio Unit
• Augustus Loop tape delay emulator(and more) plug-in
• "Electrix Virtual Repeater Pro" award winning live loop studio ... unfortunately discontinued

Live looping hardware

• Boss RC-2, RC-20, RC-50, ME-70, GT-10
• Gibson/Oberheim Echoplex
• Lexicon Jam Man
• Electrix Repeater
• Digitech Digidelay, JamMan
• Line 6 DL4, JM4, M3
• Electro Harmonix 2880
• Korg Kaos Pedal

Live Looping Artists

There are far to many to even start a list of links here. http://youtube.com/livelooping is a growing pool of all different kinds of this art.