Drum looping

[rockabilly]

If I make a drum sound file thats say just 2 beats in Cakewalk and insert it into Cool Edit to play with another sound file (bass, guitar and vox), is there any way I can make it play throughout the entire song without having to copy and past over and over on the track so that the file can play throughout the whole song?

Im a little new to Cool Edit and have been reading, but cant find out if thats possible.

 

[dawg2k5]

Load the drum loop in Cool Edit -> right click on it -> Clip Duplicate...and choose how many loops you want.

 

[kraniumkaos]

I usually make the drum tracks in Fruity Loops first. this way I can play along to it to make sure everything is in the right sequence. Then I export each drum individually as a WAV, basically by deleting all the tracks except one, exporting, and then reopening the FLP file.
I can then load all the wavs into cool edit

 

[o_r_i_o_n]

depending on which version of CEP you're using, you might be able to use the looping feature. right click on the drum track while in your Cool Edit multitrack session. somewhere in that menu should be "looping" or something like that. If you see that, click it and it opens up the loop properties for that track. click "enable looping" and then set the looping parameters to the multitrack session bpm (make sure its the same bpm as your drum track!). close the looping interface and you should see a little symbol at the bottom right corner of the drum track. you can then click on this symbol and drag the track out as long as you want within the multitrack session. This makes looping very easy and you can apply volume/pan/effects envelopes over the entire looped track which is something you can't do if you're looping by copying the track over and over (each copy has its own envelope). hope that helps!