About RelabiDrum:

"Relabi is any compelling, coordinated-seeming structure that is built up from a pulse or grid that is unstable in a way inherently difficult for human beings to grasp. For that reason, it can be said that in lived experience Relabi is a network of events grounded on a determinate pulse that “self-erases.” The experience therefore produces a sustained sense of contradiction—of a pulse and of the simultaneous absence, the complete diffusion, of that pulse."

― John Berndt, “Relabi”: Patterns of the Self-Erasing Pulse

This drum machine is inspired by Berndt's essay above, as well as the ADDAC System VC Relabi Generator Eurorack module.

The general idea is that four LFOs are combined to create a complex "Relabi Wave." A top and bottom threshold are set, and when the wave passes through them, a sample is triggered.

Some info that might not be clear from just looking at the UI.

• The "Trigger On" settings controls when a drum trigger happens. Triggers occur when the waveform crosses the upper (↑) or lower (↓) threshold on a rising edge (>), falling edge (<), or at both thresholds on either edge. If you set the same "Trigger On" settings to multiple LFOs, the samples will happen at the same time, although this can be varied by turning down the Probability.

• XMod uses the previous LFO as a modulation source.
• Modulation: Use the slots at the bottom of each LFO card to route sources (Relabi Wave, LFOs) to destinations (Pitch, Amplitude, Filter Cutoff). The slider controls depth.

This project is by Matt Kuebrich as a contribution to the 10,000 Drum Machines series.