How does “live looping” work in these Youtube videos I see from crazy talented solo artists who play multiple instruments in the same song?

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The extent of my AV experience consisted of trying to make mixed tapes back in the day, so watching someone doing live looping in a video seems like black magic and I’m intensely curious about how it works.

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In a live loop, you’re doing a live performance – but you’re also recording. You play back the recordings of what you just did live within the same performance, combining them with other recordings and/or playing new live sections on top of them.

This requires special hardware and/or software to make sure your playbacks stay on beat, and you yourself will need to be pretty good to pull it off well.

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