Omaudio

September 2010

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RE Echoplex edits

I added/edited the quoted (below) in 2010 and has been removed. This leaves out a crucial portion of this article's topic history. I am not clear on how I am supposed to provide a reliable source. I do not have access to private commercial contracts or agreements etc. That would be involved. The Echoplex digital was -wholly- created and designed as the Paradis Loop Delay then licensed by Oberhiem as the echoplex digital.

This is a major feature of the history and I would like to have it included but need help with citations.

"The Echoplex Digital Pro

Gibson, after buying the Echoplex brand later (ca 1993) licensed the hardware and software of the Paradis Loop Delay originally created by Matthias Grob and his team at Aurisis Research. It was branded the Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro (Oberheim was a division of Gibson at the time)and a later revision was branded the Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro Plus and contained a major software upgrade called LoopIV developed and still sold as of this writing by Aurisis Research. The "EDP" as it would be called was a major development and innovation in the technique of audio looping (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_loop) and still has an eclectic following of users also known as "loopers". The EDP is an all digital device and though retaining the Echoplex name does not retain any of the electro mechanical design of the original, ie. the analog tape loop. The website and looper resource Looper's Delight was created by the EDP co-developer Kim Flint and still hosts an active email list. (Information for this section was gathered from the web pages linked in this section and from emails exchanged with Matthias Grob. See also http://www.loopers-delight.com/tools/echoplex/OBechoplexhistory.html for a brief history written by Matthias Grob.)"