Eight-stage CV step sequencer — a few knobs, long evolving sequences.
Stepling is a 2U step sequencer modelled on classic vintage step-sequencer hardware. Each of its eight stages holds a pitch, a pulse count (how many steps the stage lasts), a gate mode, a ratchet pattern, and slide and skip switches — so a single column of controls describes a note, how it repeats, how it's gated and how it slides. Every pitch is quantised to one of thirty scales, and the stages can run in sixteen play directions, with a live keyboard on the display showing what's in key.
It's a CV device — it drives any Reason instrument over pitch and gate rather than making sound itself. Seventy CV inputs reach nearly every parameter, global and per-stage, down to the scale, direction and sequence length; eleven outputs include a direct pitch output for each stage, so you can link units into harmonised or rhythmically independent layers. The compact device in Doodov's step-sequencer line.