Re: history of loop devices?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Wasn't the Jam Man the first device that would let you set the
loop/delay length on the fly while playing along? Speaking about
myself, reading in musician mags about the launch of Lexicon's new box
was a mind blowing experience because until then I had been forced to
reach over and twist a knob on the delay unit I used for looping in
order to set the tempo I attempted to play by. "On-the-fly
loopability" is an important cornerstone.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net> 
wrote:
> The Lexicon Jam Man was bourn from the modifications that Bob Sellon had
> been doing to the Lexicon PCM-42 delay, expanding the memory and 
> improving
> synch options. It was widely used by David Torn.
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> http://www.zmix.net
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> http://www.allmusic.com/artist/chuck-zwicky-mn0000126243
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> Charles Zwicky
> 212 414 9541 (voice only)
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> On Jun 30, 2014, at 6:43, Massimo Liverani <mas.liv@libero.it> wrote:
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> I think the ancestor fo the lexicon jamman, one of the first looper MIDI
> conceived to be only a looper.
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> http://www.loopers-delight.com/tools/jamman/jamman.html
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> Massimo
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> Also, the Lexicon Model 93 Prime Time was one of the first DDLs to 
> feature a
> “hold” button, and was used extensively by Brian Eno on “My Life in the 
> Bush
> of Ghosts” and “Remain in Light”, and several Jon Hassell records.
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> http://www.zmix.net
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> http://www.allmusic.com/artist/chuck-zwicky-mn0000126243
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> Charles Zwicky
> 212 414 9541 (voice only)
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> On Jun 16, 2014, at 15:33, bill walker <wildbillwalker@icloud.com> wrote:
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> MXR M-113 Digital Delay circa 1976-77 the iconic delay used by Jaco
> Pastorius during his solo piece with Weather Report,  and was an early 
> use
> of a digital sample and hold delay in  live performance context, my 
> personal
> first  live exposure , check him out here from 1978 at about 4.08 into 
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> improvisation.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3FAbGepa14
> Bill
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> Valerie Paille from ARTE who makes a little TV documentary for the Tracks
> magazine asked if there is a history list of the important loop machines
> that came after Frippertronics (just years and device names, maybe 
> links).
> Can you help? Can we make a simple list together? She needs it quickly.
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> We can probably begin with:
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> 1983    Electro-Harmonix EH-16
> (http://www.loopers-delight.com/tools/eh16/eh16_ad.html)
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> 19??    Digitech PDS-8000
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> -Michael
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