Frustrations looping a song

[konaboy32]

Reading the manual before purchase it seemed it was possible to record and loop a song, 2 ways to do it:

1) Select "Single" to loop an entire song
2) Use A-B Repeat to loop part of a song.

Now I discover that neither of these work properly.

1) SIngle inserts a one bar empty silence between restarting the song
2) A ridiculous 1 bar metronome count-in is played before every repeat

Very disappointed as this was something I was looking forward to.

Hopefully there is a setting or some trick I am missing.

Thanks