Drum Machine Style Recording Drum Grid editing coupled with drum machine-style recording comprise an excellent tool set for recording and editing rhythmic loops in Metro. Real-time MIDI editing keeps the creative juices flowing, allowing you to edit without having to stop the recording process. The Record and Play Setup dialog box configures Metro for a variety of record loop modes including Song Building mode, which is a great way to emulate drum machine-style recording. Loop Recording does not support the recording of Audio Tracks. In the previous tutorial you used this same dialog box for setting up a countoff time. Now let's configure Metro's record mode: Choose Record/Play from the Setup menu. The Record and Play Setup dialog box appears. Click the Song building mode button to select your record mode setup. Enter 1 in the field for 'N' Tracks maximum when loop recording. This sets Metro to record each of its loop passes onto a single track. Click the Overdub button to select your Record mode setup. Selecting Overdub as the record mode instructs Metro to layer each record pass on top of one another. Click OK to enter your new settings and close the dialog box. Open the Transport window (Command-B) and expand its window to full size, if necessary. Click to select the Rec checkbox within the Looping display. This enables record looping. You've now configured loop recording in Song Building Mode, which overdubs successive record passes onto a single track. This is exactly the formula needed to emulate drum machine-style recording. The next step in this tutorial is Creating a Section.