Repeating Patterns

[megarat]

Hello folks, another newbie question, I hope I'm not overlooking anything too obvious.  Is there a way to make a specific pattern repeat itself a specific number of times?  I don't mean using the "Break/Jump/Repeat" FX parameter, since that's baked into the pattern itself and is (as far as I understand) immutable.  I'm thinking of a situation like this:  in a given track:

-- Play pattern "00" four times
-- Play pattern "01" two times
-- Play pattern "00" six times
-- Play pattern "01" six times

I can do this by having each pattern run take up a sequencer row (for eighteen rows total in the above example), and I suppose I could use "Break/Jump/Repeat" to play each pattern twice, which would halve the number of rows needed to execute the above, but I'm wondering there is a way to have a pattern in a track/row of the Sequencer screen, where you can set that pattern to play N times before moving on to the next row/pattern, so that the above example would only have four rows.

Is such an action possible?  I'm hazily seeing the potential to do this with the Automation's "FX1 .. FX4 Overrule" destination -- i.e., using a control voltage going into one of the CV inputs to control the parameter of a "Break/Jump/Repeat" effect in the track -- but it seems like a lot of work for something relatively simple, and it doesn't seem like a good use of the finite number of Automation slots.  Am I missing something?

[Mat]

I'd still say using the BRK function is your best option here. But just make four patterns instead of two. Where the last (six time patterns) are clones (hit shift+ok in the sequencer screen to clone a pattern) of the first two patterns. In the pattern screen you just give them any desired repeat times.

[megarat]

I'd still say using the BRK function is your best option here. But just make four patterns instead of two. Where the last (six time patterns) are clones (hit shift+ok in the sequencer screen to clone a pattern) of the first two patterns. In the pattern screen you just give them any desired repeat times.

Thanks @Mat, I appreciate the feedback.  I have other situations that aren't so cut and dry, but it sounds like you're confirming that there isn't a high-level "repeat pattern" function that I don't know about, so I'll stop digging into this and just use BRK/repeated patterns.