still not making sense… im also a “normal, old fashioned musician” - you can easily make an 8 bar loop by chaining 2 loops together, and you can record into the empty, chained patterns in real time - just like any other “old fashioned musician” who actually plays and records things live… so you can record an 8 bar loop in real time extremely easily and all it takes is one more press of a button, in the same mode, same function, etc… its so very easy - unless you are determined to not see it that way, then there will never be anyway to tell you otherwise but frankly thats not my concern
im just stating the facts