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CV sequencer?

What you're asking for isn't going to be cheaper than the ringtone. It's going to be orders of magnitude more expensive. Not to discourage you, that's just what you're going to find unless you want to build one like the Milton sequencer kit (Big City Music offers them). The one's I would try to take a look at would be the Flame Clockwork and the Technosaurus Cyclodon. If you're going to spring for one you could always get the Moog Freq Box down the line and make a little synth setup on your pedalboard.
 
As was just said, a sequencer has a series of steps. Each step has a separate voltage control, and you set each step to whatever voltage you want. The sequencer will then cycle through them at whatever speed you want (kinda like how the ZVEX seekwah and seektrems work). The CP-251 does not have this functionality, although it does tons of other stuff to CVs (sample+hold, LFOs, sag controls, portamenteau, etc.)
 
uhm... can you explain to a complete newbee like me what the CP-251 does in the practice?

the cp-251 produces some different waveforms which output is an voltage, so it can drive/control various CV. So when the voltage varies it gives the paramater/knob a different value, which is ubberly cool if you're a knob tweaker, cause you can do more precise things and it is easier to redo or duplicate a sound, cause voltages doesnt lie or play around:bassist: