Render a LOOP repeated x amount of time?

Hi,
 
I want to send someone a sample of what I'm busy doing.  I want to send him a render of 16 bars but I want to loop it 3 times.
 
I DON'T want to copy and paste everything just so the loop is 3 times as long as it is originally...
 
Possible?

Turn it into a Groove Clip and drag it out for as long as is needed

Actually you said "I DON'T want to copy and paste everything just so the loop is 3 times as long as it is originally..." so none of the solutions offered above involved copy and paste.
 
It now sounds like what you want is to place a loop within a project, and tell it to loop a certain number of times independently of any loop happening within the project itself. If I understand correctly, in your example there will be a 16 measure clip in the project that will play back and when the now time reaches the end of the clip, it will play back again, two more times, even though the now time will have moved past the clip.
 
If the person you're sending it to is using SONAR, this is not possible within track view. It is possible within Matrix view, although you would have to stop the loop playback manually while the rest of the song kept playing.
 
 

Never mind. No one understands what I'm trying to do... And I don't understand any of the solutions provided...
 
Delete thread - I'll just write this off as a bad experience...

John Joseph [Cakewalk]
Theoretically you could drag your clip to a matrix cell and record it from there... though it would just record to the original track I think so you'd get the same result as if you made it a groove clip and dragged out. 

It's not a clip - it's the master output that I want to render between bar 16 and 32, but repeated 3 times, without messing with the track layout!

brundlefly
- Put a send on the Master bus to an aux track, and arm the track to record.
- Loop the range you want to record.
- Start recording in Comp or Sound on Sound mode, and record three takes.
- Open the project audio folder, and you'll find a single audio file that's three iterations long though it's represented as three separate takes/clips in the project.

What is Comp and Sound on Sound mode?

I guess it would be kinda cool to have this as an option in the dialog, though, i.e Export Entire Mix, repeat 3 times. 

John Joseph [Cakewalk]
I guess it would be kinda cool to have this as an option in the dialog, though, i.e Export Entire Mix, repeat 3 times. 

My $.02:
 
I can't remember ever seeing another request for this capability, and it's so easy to bounce the Master to a track and copy-paste or roll out multiple iterations by Groove-Clip looping that I can't see taking the time to develop a dedicated export option.
 
Also, I think most users would want to have more options to allow iterating only the middle section between intro and outro, fading the outro, etc. Without these options, I don't think the feature would be very useful.
 
I make up preliminary arrangements like this with some regularity when I want to share an unfinished piece; it's really not that big a deal to do this using a combination of existing bounce, copy-paste and groove-clip functionality. Then just Archive the arrangement track, and keep working on the 'living' project.

OK, so I got the above method working but the sound quality is ATROCIOUS! not NEARLY mixdown quality!!!! Live recording is just NOT an option.  I'll just have to copy and paste the ****! and mixdown.
 
All of this needs to happen in the EXPORT dialog.. Live recording to disk does not process the sound like it should!  The thing that frustrates me most is that I don't understand half the terminology flung around here

chuckebaby
 
that just solidifies you cant just open up a DAW and think your gong to be superman.
it takes time and effort. most of us have been doing this for years and continuously learning the tool we use.

Thanks, this helped me solve my issue!

brundlefly

RedSkyRoad
OK, so I got the above method working but the sound quality is ATROCIOUS! not NEARLY mixdown quality!!!! Live recording is just NOT an option.  I'll just have to copy and paste the ****! and mixdown.
 
All of this needs to happen in the EXPORT dialog.. Live recording to disk does not process the sound like it should!  The thing that frustrates me most is that I don't understand half the terminology flung around here

Aux recording and bounce/export will produce digitally identical output if set up correctly. It's not clear what you might have done wrong.
 
I should have mentioned that sending from Master to a new aux track that's created with the output going to Master by default would create a loop, so SONAR will fail to create the Send in that case.
 
I understand how all these little gotchas can be frustrating until you understand everything. Can't really be helped. But life is a lot easier if you don't insist on doing things the hard way to start with.

Thanks for trying to help.  I only come to the forum if I cannot figure out something on my own or through the online manual.  I make no use of live recordings in my music.  Everything is VST based, so I don't focus on things like "comping", etc...
 
The reason I have to bounce this clip 3 times, is because SONAR can't like FL Studio (which I started on) merge the delay&reverb tail over the beginning for looping purposes.  For listening purposes, it just sounds terrible if you loop a single WAV and it repeats dry at the end of the phrase.
 
Anyway, let's leave this until I know what things like "slip-editing", "punch-in/out" is (not that I might need it)