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Record snapshots of signals and play them back. It's like a camera and slide show, only your pictures can be modulation states, pitch cv, gate signals, or... whatever.
Just flip the big central switch to REC and press a red button to capture signals going to any (or all) of the 10 input jacks (left). You can record the individual jacks in multiple passes too (just leave a jack disconnected and it won't write over recorded values). Then, flip the big switch to PLAY and press the red buttons to send those captured signals through the output jacks (right).
It comes to life when you step through your captures by using triggers ("step" jack, center-left). If you flip the switch above to random mode, then triggers will randomly select capture slots. Just to the right, there's a "step max" dial, so you can use a small subset (for ex, set it to four if you're only using the first four red buttons). The "reset" jack takes a trigger and sends the device back to the first slot. Alternatively, use the "address" jack to scan across the slots with a CV signal, where -5V selects the first slot and +5V selects the last one, and in-between voltages select in-between slots. Along the left and bottom of the buttons, are a series of x/y jacks - send a trigger to select a row and another trigger to select a column, and jump to a capture slot like specifying a coordinate. It works especially well for generative music.
Along the top center (between input and output jacks), there is a master output attenuverter with CV control, so you can modulate the snaphot magnitude. There's a jack for DC input, with an attenuator, which allows you to bias the output (this voltage sums with each output). Since the main REC/PLAY switch has a center THROUGH position (you can simply connect the inputs to the outputs), there is also a playthrough attenuator. Lastly, there's also a jack with a neighboring switch to select whether it outputs an internal LFO (the above knob sets the rate), noise, or 0V. You can connect these to the inputs to have an convenient on-board source for recording (LFO or noise) or erasing (0V).
The CV State Capture Device can be used like a universal sequencer, a preset manager, a stepped modulator, a digital recorder, a waveform designer, and so much more... When you spend time with the device, you start to realize that it rewards creativity and keeps up with innovation.