The CGS389 is a sequencer designed for delivering pulsed or gated events, for rhythm and percussion, triggering other sequencers, or selecting stages in Programmers such as the CGS359 & CGS387.

The main function of the board is as a sequential pulse generator. When clocked by an external source, each of its outputs will come on one after the other. This can be used to sequentially trigger up to ten events. An example would be to set the number of steps to 2 by patching [OUT 3] to [RESET], then connect outputs [OUT 1] and [OUT 2] to two drum sound generators. A pulse train fed to the clock input would then produce a drum roll alternating between the two drum sounds. When coupled with the CGS359/CGS387 rhythms of up to ten steps can be created.

Once you have a sequencer in your modular, you will wonder how you ever survived without it.

This module has also been designed so that it's outputs can be connected together with its other outputs, or outputs of other CGS389 gate sequencers via wire ORing.