Archived request from the wiki:

Loops

• Wikipedia: Music_loop
• Family: Other
• Description:
• Appears on:
  1. 52 credits loops, drum loops, percussion loops on several songs
  2. Sieben/Seven on track 11
  3. Emotional Creatures: Part One by Steve Thorne, loops on one track --Shepard 17:17, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
  4. Part Two: Emotional Creatures by Steve Thorne, loops on one track, percussion loops on another --Shepard 17:17, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
  5. Into the Ether by Steve Thorne, loops on two tracks --Shepard 17:17, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
  6. Go! on track 3, programmed by Anthony J. Resta, credited as sampler --HibiscusKazeneko 05:16, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
  7. Heavy Rocks (2011) on Track 9, guest performed by Aaron Turner, credited as electronic instruments --HibiscusKazeneko 20:15, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
  8. Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming on track 6 (specifically a guitar loop), performed/programmed by Dustin O'Halloran – HibiscusKazeneko 10:01, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
• Comments:
  • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. – BrianSchweitzer
    • In Discogs Loops are credited 3223 times in release level and 2769 in track level Jokipii 21 June 2012
  • This is a tricky case. I've seen some pedal device being used to start and stop recording a loop while playing an instrument and then later repeating it (or repeating several loops at once). This should be an instrument in the electronic instruments family. But the Wikipedia article also mentions samplers being used for that (and we already have sampler in the tree) or that you can just digitally repeat samples. That latter case is not an instrument being used, really. And how can you tell which of those an artist really did? Credits like "samples" and "sound effects"/"fx" are similar. --Shepard 18:43, 24 June 2011 (UTC)