Lexicon JamMan

The Lexicon JamMan is a rack-mounted audio-looping & sampling device which was introduced in 1994 by Lexicon but discontinued after failing to reach the sales threshold. Not to be confused with the Digitech JamMan pedal, which bears the same name but is otherwise unrelated.

Up to 8 seconds of musical phrases (expandable to 32 seconds with extra chips) can be sampled with the touch of a button (using external footswitches) and looped indefinitely upon playback (and also layered over). The loop clock can also be controlled by and synchronised to external MIDI equipment for additional accompaniment. Delay/echo settings are also offered.

Peter Gabriel used the Lexicon JamMan a lot on the Up (2002) album for various percussion loops, as well as for distortion effects heard on "Darkness" and the elephant-like noises on "Growing Up" (in fact a JamMan-treated vocal sound).

Further info

 * Live Looping page