How do I extend loops i have created?

Question

Hello!
Sorry if this is blindingly obvious to everyone but me, but...
OK, so here's the scenario: I create a few bars of music using percussion, bass sounds, organ sounds, etc. all on separate tracks. I then edit the piece so that I just have the section that i want to loop. I use the loop click and drag tool to measure out where the loop ends, etc. I hit play and it all loops wonderfully.
Now here what I am trying to figure out: If I want to use this loop as a backing track for vocals how do I extend the loop so that it will play continuously while I am recording the vocal.
I have accomplished this by cutting and pasting the looped sections but this seems a rather laborious task.
Anyone know another way of doing this?
Many thanks
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Answer 1

I'll try and explain it better.
I create the piece of music for looping, for arguments sake, eight bars. I then use the looping tool so that the eight bars will repeat ad infinitum.
I then want to use the loop as a backing track for a vocal.
The vocal is much longer than eight bars. So how I do I get the eight bar loop to continue looping while I am recording the much longer vocal track (without the vocal track going back to the begining at the end of each eight bar cycle)?
As I have not yet found a better way of doing it, I currently copy and paste the eight bar section for the length of the song... but I am hoping to find a better way of doing it... so that the track loops while I record a longer vocal on a new track (without the vocal track going back to the beginning at the end of each eight bar cycle and overdubbing the existing vocal)
I don't think I can explain it any better.
Thanks
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