KGB-G — Kinetic Gate Bouncing Generator

Turn motion into rhythm. KGB-G is a physics-driven CV gate
generator. Four balls fly around an arena, ricocheting off the walls
and off each other — and every impact becomes a control-voltage gate
you can send anywhere in the Reason rack.

Because the balls carry real momentum, trade energy when they collide,
and speed up or drift back over time, the patterns KGB-G produces are
alive — never quite the same twice, always musical, and endlessly
steerable. Nudge a ball’s speed, drop a trip line across the field,
thin the hits with a little chance, or lock the whole thing to your
tempo grid, then patch the gates into drums, synths, envelopes,
Players, or anything CV can trigger.

Best of all, it’s a generative sequencer you can watch: the animated
arena shows exactly where every hit comes from, so building a groove
feels like play instead of menu-diving.

KGB-G makes no sound of its own — it’s a pure CV brain that brings the
devices you already own to life.

The engine

• Four independent balls in a live physics arena
• Elastic ball-to-ball collisions that transfer energy
• Adjustable recovery time back to each ball’s set speed
• KICK re-randomizes every heading for instant variations

Gate outputs (9 total)

• Four wall gates — top, right, left, bottom
• One collision gate for ball-to-ball hits
• Four trip-line gates you place anywhere in the field

Velocity & dynamics

• Every gate’s level tracks the ball’s speed at impact
• Global MIN / MAX window scales the soft-to-hard response

Timing

• Free mode fires gates the instant of impact
• Quant mode snaps hits to the grid (1/1–1/32, dotted & triplet)
• Independent quantize grid for the trip lines — run walls and lines
  on two different grids at once

Chance & variation

• Per-ball and per-line probability to thin and humanize the pattern
• Collisions always fire — reliable accents every time

CV modulation (back panel)

• Global and per-ball speed (bipolar)
• Per-ball and per-line on/off gating
• Per-line position — sweep a line with an LFO and trip balls as it moves
• Per-ball and per-line randomness
• Kick trigger input

Position outputs

• Live X and Y of all four balls as smooth 0–1 CV — instant
  LFO-style modulation sources for filters, pan, or pitch

Workflow

• Animated arena display; drag trip lines directly on screen
• Full MIDI CC map plus Combinator / Remote targets

At a glance

• 4U CV Processor — generates CV, makes no audio
• 9 gate outputs, 8 position outputs, extensive CV inputs
• Requires Reason 14 or later