Cassp,
That's why I miss my synths.. I was always making 4-8 bar looped riffs and would jam my butt off to them. Plus my synths had pattern chaining (something that any arranger would benefit from)... By the way those down and dirty loop sequencers are out there and have been for some time. Here's a few

Roland XP 60/80-- Offered non-stop loop recording, meaning you could record one track and without having to press the stop button move to the next track and start recording all in real time. It was a really cool feature and really limited any gaps in teh creative flow.

Yamaha EX-5/7-- Both awsome synths.. The EX-5 still has some of the best voice editing out there. Plus both models allowed independent track loop recording.. Say you had a pattern that conisted of 4 parts.. You could record a 4 bar drum part set that to loop, a 2 bar bass line and set that to loop and so on.. All the tracks could have their own loop settings.

Korg Triton (Classic and Studio)-- Great loop recording on these units too. Plus they too offer the independent track loop recording.

There are several other models too... If you really want to get down into recording great sounding loops with ease a synth is really the way to go. Granted I do love the arrangers, but when it comes down to raw internal sequencing power I have to go with the synths on this one..

Squeak

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