back in the 90's I had a yamaha qy300 sequencer - great little device.
as well as the usual 16 midi tracks one of its better features was an extra 2 tracks - a pattern track and a chord track. the device came with preloaded patterns that you could arrange one after the other to form a song and the chord track enabled you to change the pattern chords as it played. this enabled one to knock up a basic track in very little time as each pattern contained drums, bass, keyboards and more
is there a way to do this in cakewalk bandlab? ('ve heard about loops - are they the same as patterns? if I can't do this in cakewalk is there any other software that can do this? thanks for any advice.