At the start of this project, I focused on building a non-linear system shaped by fractured rhythm. The glitch drum setup was intentional. I wanted to explore how rhythm could fall apart, misfire, or rebuild itself through tension—without becoming chaos.
Inside VCV Rack, I created a percussive chain using Glee, KickBaba, and Hihat modules. The trigger logic was built using a 12×16 Gate Sequencer, where I manually routed gate signals into asymmetric paths. To break repetition, I patched chaos CV sources into the sequencer’s gate length and division inputs, so the rhythm would shift, collapse, or overlap unpredictably.
Some hits intentionally disappear into delay tails. Others glitch against each other. There is no master loop. The whole system moves forward by drifting apart.
Initially, I tried standard kick and snare modules, but they felt too stable. I switched to KickBaba, which includes a phase roll circuit that makes the kick drum sound like a packet of data unraveling—not a punch, but a collapse.
This patch doesn’t generate beats—it disrupts them. I built a structure where rhythm is defined not by order, but by controlled imbalance. Through misalignment and layered dissonance, time becomes something unstable, yet precisely shaped.
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