How to Make a Tape Loop

When sampling happened, right after that first wave of hip hop, when we first started hearing samples on records, the sampling time was like a second and a half. You would sample something, you'd got it on the tape, there was no way of saving it. Chris, at Calypa, used to use an electro harmonics one shot, and when you unplugged it, that was gone forever. The Akai 612 had these little quick discs, the proprietary sort of mini floppy format that you saved the stuff on. I think it had seven to nine tenths of a second of sampling.