JASON DONNELLY: The first thing I'm going to do is right click on the workspace here to insert an audio track. Ctrl-Q is also another option. I'm going to arm the track for record, make sure my recorded files folder is selected, yes it is, click OK, and then I'm going to select the audio input. We're going into channels 9 and 10 which is input 5 here, 9 and 10. Okay, and I'm simply going to press record. Now, I'm going to hit play on the Apple and our performance should start playing, and you'll see it recording.

[JASON DONNELLY RECORDING A LOOP INTO SONY VEGAS]

I didn't have that backed up all the way to the beginning, so it makes it a lot easier if I do so let's try that again.

[JASON DONNELLY RECORDING A LOOP INTO SONY VEGAS]

Okay, that should be good, click stop on the Cubase, stop here on Vegas, done. Now what I'll do is move the cursor over to the beginning of that loop, here I got all the way back, just zoom in, and now you can see I still have some silence there. I'm going to bring it right up to the transient on the waveform and I'm going to look. I need eight bars so -- and what I usually try to do is take second repetition so that it grabs the tail end and crossfades it to the beginning, which creates sort of that endless loop or seamless loop. Sorry, all loops are endless, I guess, unless you stop them. So I'm going to take this repetition here, I'm going to move it all the way over, and we need eight bars. Tchew! And there you go. We have our loop, and now what I'm going to do next is under file, we're going to render that WAV file down, we'll call it Big Nasty Trance Pad, save it down to desktop.