How do I record arpeggios in an external sequencer?

You must work with LOCAL ON when attempting to record arpeggios from the Motif (or any synth for that matter). When LOCAL is OFF the note data goes to the MIDI out before it goes to the Motif tone generator (thus no arpeggio gets sent).

You should set up one environment for normal recording (local OFF) and another for recording the results of arpeggio (local ON). Of course, you must be careful about then shutting OFF the Arp ON/OFF switch when playing back - or you will be arpeggiating the arpeggio (usually with silly results).

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Utility/Voice/ArpChannel/Output Switch, and set on to record to your external sequencer. Then you don't have to switch local on and off.

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