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CV sequencers usually have one active step. This can do that, but it can also have many active steps. Two of them are available individually with a CV-able control to offset their spacing, but the highlight, the Klee-ishness of the sequencer, is the main CV OUT's summation of all active steps, resulting in intriguingly unpredictable yet reliably patterned output melodies (usually with a quantizer & modulations.

Activation of steps is achieved via a Klee sequence which is read as HIGH (above 0V) or LOW values at the SEQ IN jack, and passed into the array of 16 voltage dials (bottom), starting at the top left and marching across two rows toward the bottom right. Two activations within 16 clock pulses means two of the dials will be summed in various pairs. If they the activations are within adjacent clock pulses, then neighboring dials will be grouped, but if the spacing is greater, then distant dials are added together in serendipitous combinations. These activations can be fed from any sequencer, LFO, noise source, etc... but there is also an internally normalled Klee sequence, which you can set via the red buttons at the upper left.

To get started, you can ignore all the complicated ideas - just turn all the lower dials, guess at flipping their neighboring switches up & down, and punch in some pattern with the box of red buttons. Connect either "Gate Bus" output to your envelope generator and the CV OUT jack through a quantizer to your oscillator. It'll be playing surprisingly interesting patterns right away, and they'll get better as you realize how you can manipulate and modulate various settings which redefine the behavior.

While it's easy to start with a focus on the CV OUT, this sequencer also has in interesting way of generating rhythms. Indeed, one might use this device purely as a gate pattern generator. In parallel with voltage settings, steps are also each equipped with a three-way switch. As steps are activated, the switch diverts a gate signal to the Upper or Lower Gate Bus (top & bottom positions), which might be activated by any of the active steps (the gate turns on if at least 1 activated step is assigned to that bus). Already, you have two complementary rhythms (which do often overlap). The third position could be called the "Middle Gate Bus" and that'd be a fine name for what's labeled the "NOR Gate Bus" - in actuality, the activation isn't passed through, but rather, NOR logic determines that if neither the Upper nor Lower Gate Bus are activated, then this one might as well be activated. There is a difference in functionality, for the best, and for practical purposes, you can see it as a third rhythm option which tends to be more sparse when the others are more active and vice versa. With a "why not more?" attitude, a fourth gate bus acts much like the other middle bus, but offers selectable logic (XOR/AND/NAND) and that selection can even be modulated, for great rhythmic variety. Further, a section of "Indexed Gate Outs" monitor individual steps (selectable via gray dials) for activation and can be a useful way to synchronize or trigger events.

The MOD section has an input for modulating switches at the steps and another for modulating voltage values - attach a keyboard or another CV sequencer to set the knobs and switches for you. The silver dial lets you modulate one step at a time (advancing with clock pulses) at setting 0, or you can set it to a value of 1-16 to modulate one particular step. For the CV OUT, the ATTEN and BIAS dials (upper right) scale the voltage range and shift its baseline respectively. The "Alt Out" jack acts much like its neighbor, but outputs a summed voltage of all of the inactive steps.

You can start to see how one might connect as many as 3 or 4 oscillators to this, obtaining both pitch and rhythm. No reason it can't sequence a drum pattern at the same time too! There's more to discover, which hasn't been mentioned here, but the nice part is that you don't need to understand even half of the controls to start getting fun results. Its a great sequencer for producing music which you both feel responsible for making and surprised to be hearing.