[sdiy] ...dumb question (CD4017 sequencer)

[Electronium]

OK, here comes my first kinda dumb question (of many more to come, I'm sure) for the list...

I'm building a very simple 8 step/2 stage sequencer, using a CD4017 and here's what I can't quite figure out:

How do you get the sequencer to stop so that it - A) does not put out the voltage of the current step and B) always starts again on step 1, when you restart it?

I have read the datasheet & messed around with the clock enable input, reset, & clock input... but I just can't quite get it to do what I want.  I am building this for a simple synth project (inside an old samsonite suitcase) and I want it to act as the master clock to control (start/stop) other modules also.

I should also mention that I am trying to keep all of the modules in this project as simple as possible.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Mike Brown

(BTW... I suppose, actually, that my question about the SN76489 a few weeks ago was really my *first* dumb question ; )
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