Help requested - MIDI takes

[chrispnyc]

Ok. I've read through the manual a billion times trying to figure this out, and I still don't see the answer I'm looking for...

I used to use PT. When recording MIDI, I would set up a 16 bar loop and work out a bass line (or whatever) as MIDI. The loop would cycle through to the beginning and automatically erase the old mid as the new MIDI was laid down. I would do this until I had the groove I wanted.

In DP, I cycle through to the beginning and it pops out of record. If I do it as an overdub, it just layers the MIDI ontop of the last pass...I've tried setting up a take but I don't think I'm doing that correctly. It seems that I would need to tell DP to move to the next take, but when I'm sitting at my keys, that woudl break the flow of my playing.

Can anyone help?