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When you record a 4-bar clip with metronome to make it a loop and accidentally press stop a little before the fourth bar, the clip becomes a bit short for 4-bar loop.

Now you want to loop it, but it won't loop properly, since it's a bit short and will get off-sync. I wish there was a way to complete a too short recording to make it possible to loop it.

I suggest it would be possible to lengthen a recorded clip/sample with silence by just dragging the loop-end-point further than then recording is to complete this kind of "uncomplete" recordings. Dragging the end-point further would just insert silence.

Right now I either:

1) Drag the last warp marker to the left, and catch the 5.1.1 and double click to activate it. This will stretch the last bit of the loop to fit the bar.

2)drag to arrange, select four bars, hit consolidate, drag back to session. This one is fast as hell, just takes a few seconds.

Oh, thanks for the tip! I'll do that!