How to repeat a loop across several bars
Drag a clip's right edge along the grid in Loop by Zaweba and the loop repeats for as many bars as you pull it, snapping to the bar lines.
To repeat a loop across several bars in Loop by Zaweba, drag the clip's right edge along the grid. The loop plays again and again for as far as you pull it, snapping to the bar lines, so a two-bar drum loop can fill eight, sixteen or the whole song in one movement. Pull the edge back to shorten it.
That's the main way, and the one you'll use most. There are a few others that suit different jobs, and a handful of habits that make an arrangement easier to change later.
Stretching a clip along the grid
Find a loop in the library and click it to preview it in time with the song. Drag it onto a track on the grid; it snaps to the bars, starting where you dropped it.
Move the mouse to the right-hand end of the clip. Drag right, and the clip grows in whole repeats. Let go when it reaches the bar you want. If you overshoot, drag it back, or press Ctrl+Z to undo.
Zoom helps on a long song. Ctrl+wheel zooms the grid, Shift+wheel scrolls along it, Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- zoom in and out, and Ctrl+0 fits the whole song on screen so you can drag to the very end.
Other ways to repeat a loop
Duplicate the clip. Select it and press Ctrl+D, or right-click and choose duplicate, and a copy appears. This gives you a separate clip rather than one long one, which is handy when you want the repeat to be different later, for example muted in one place or with key lock off.
Copy it somewhere else. Hold Ctrl while you drag a clip and you leave the original where it was and drop a copy at the new spot. Use this to put the same loop in the second chorus without stretching it across the verse in between.
Use a loop region while you work. That is a different kind of repeating: press L to toggle a loop region and playback keeps going round the same bars, which is useful for listening to one section again and again while you adjust it. It doesn't change the song itself.
Long clip or several clips?
One long stretched clip is tidy and quick. It's the right choice for a drum beat or a bass line that runs unchanged through a section.
Separate clips give you more control. Because each clip has its own right-click menu (duplicate, rename, mute, key lock, takes and delete), you can mute just one of them for a breakdown, rename them so you remember which is the chorus version, or edit one in the riff editor by double-clicking it without touching the others.
A common pattern is to stretch a loop across a whole section, then break the song into sections by duplicating.
Making repetition sound less repetitive
Loops are meant to repeat, but a song that plays the same four bars for three minutes gets tiring. Leave gaps: stop the drums for a bar before the chorus, or start the bass four bars after the drums. Swap in a different loop of the same type for the second half of a section. Change the loudness over time with automation in Studio mode, so a part grows rather than sitting at one level.
Remember that loops follow the song's tempo and key, so changing those later doesn't break your repeats. Every copy moves with the song.
Before you export
Check the end of the song. A clip stretched one bar too far leaves a lonely drum pattern after everything else has stopped. Ctrl+0 to fit the song on screen makes that easy to spot.
