Live recording w/o looping back to start

I’m sure this must be possible, but I don’t know where to look to change the setting.

Say I want to record a piano piece of an indeterminate length. I hit record, start playing, but obviously after the first bar, it just loops back and I’m playing over top of myself.

How do I get new patterns to be made during recording?

Does this tool do what you want?
http://www.renoise.com/tools/auto-clone-patterns

Why don’t you just make a couple of patterns first, record your piano piece, trim the patterns down to the length you need?

yeah, this is my current work around, but it is a little inefficient. I don’t want to have to stop, add more patterns and then resume playing if I don’t add enough.

going to check vv’s thing when the site is back online