Hi
> personal experience tell you whats goin on. if anyone could give me a
> breif overveiw of syncing the arpeggiator. i have limeted gear and
> limeted funds, i have a 707, what are the possibilities???
The arpeggiator requires a single trigger signal for each step (in fact
you need a so called "Switched Trigger"). This kind of trigger signal
was usually generated by analogue drum machines (eg. the TR-808 provides
trigger outs), sequencers or dedicated synchronizers.
For synching with MIDI the easiest way should be a MIDI-2-CV interface,
like Doepfer MCV4 or Kenton Pro Solo (others exist). If you program a
short note for each step of the arpeggiator in your sequencer and feed
the "gate out" of the interface to the arpeggiator in, you will have a sync.
It is irrelevant which note you are using - because you don't use the
tonal information (which is transferred by the CV-Signal) but only the
Note-on/off, which is transferred by the Gate-Signal.
Another possibility, but not as reliable, might be to use a short audio
signal (e.g a rimshot) to trigger the Arpeggio.
Florian