You'll get the latin and jazz styles you're looking for on an arranger. Arrangers are great for jazz, blues, latin, rock, gospel, contemp., new age, and a few others. You're not going to get that thumping drums, bass, and synth sounds you'll need for HipHop and styles related to that from an arranger.

Also arranger style recorders arent the easiest to use when it comes to HipHop. With HipHop you need to chain your patterns. You cannot chain patterns on an arranger (some think you can, but you cannot because pattern chaining is different from using arrangers). Plus when doing HipHop loops artists generally record their fills and so forth into the loop itself. Thus making it easier to chain them.

When I get home I'm going to see if I have anything to send to Fran in either MP-3 or midi file for him to get an idea of what I'm talking about.

Squeak