Looping Options When you choose Looping from the special menu, the Looping options dialog box appears. From the Loop dialog box you can set the number of times a selection will loop, by entering a number in the "N" times field, or you can select the For Many hours option which will loop the selection indefinitely. Metro does not loop audio tracks. To loop an area in a track: In the Graphic Editor window, select the area you want to loop. Choose Looping from the Special menu. The Looping Options dialog box appears. Notice that the beginning and ending locations of your selection are entered in the From and To fields in the Looping Options dialog box. If you want the range to loop a specific number of times, click the Loop 'N' Times button and enter the desired value. If you want the range to loop virtually infinitely, click the For Many Hours button. If you want, reselect the area you want to loop by filing in values in the From and To fields. Click OK. Notice that Loop icons now appear within the Graphic Editor window at the specified begin and end locations. In the Graphic Editor window you'll see a number next to the Loop End icon, which is the number of times you specified the range to loop. Once playback of the loop begins, you'll see a number next to the Loop Begin icon that designates the cycle number of the loop currently playing. If you play looped and unlooped tracks at the same time, when the looped track finishes the looped section, it skips over enough of the following measures to catch up to the unlooped track. In the Tracks window you'll see one of two Loop icons in the Loop column, indicating the track is loop enabled. A Loop icon with a single arrow designates that the entire track is looped (from beginning to end); a Loop icon with two arrows designates that a range within that track is looped. See Also: Loop Recording Looping a Track Looping Cues Looping Playback of an Area Within Your Track Looping Playback of Your Track Clear Selected Loops