[RMZ]

I'm sequencing my drum parts using Ableton Live... I have a need to be
able to store my songs as a collections of patterns inside a rhythm
machine.

So I hook up Ableton Live to my rhythm machine and I'm able to control
the rhythm machine using MIDI out from Ableton Live (it's playing my
drum sequence from MIDI channel 10 as expected and sounds great on the
rhythm machine). My problem is getting the rhythm machine to record
the incoming MIDI notes.

Should I be in step-record mode or real-time mode? Is there something
special I need to do?

I have two rhythm machines (ZOOM MRT-3 and Alesis SR-16) and I don't
really care which of the two I can get this working with.... just want
it to work on one of the two.... At this point I've been successful in
getting my sequencer (Ableton) to feed a drum sequencer to either
device.... my problem is recording the incoming MIDI using the rhythm
machines record methods.