The blend reaches the ear: drums arrive in 3 bars, identity in 7

Paul's critical bug — 99% reggae from fugue still sounded like a slow drumless fugue — was never the kernel (a 200-seed sweep exonerated the state at t=.99). The live glide layer killed the drums twice:

• 1. Drum sections never turned ON: the "drum kit" flip only rewrote sections whose drums were already playing — from an all-drums-off genre it was a no-op that erased its own diff

• 2. And when they finally turned on, they were mute: the "sample" flip replaced foundSources wholesale but zone-carried only pad/bass/melody

• Plus the sync residue: topology crossfades re-anchored the beat grid mid-bar while old native notes rang across the new downbeat

Verified: blend-arrival-run.js is the committed contract: parked on reggae after fugue — drums within 3 bars (was: never), kit/lead/bpm within 7 (was: ~118), fugue side unregressed, RMS real, zero…

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments https://stellate.app/?genre=bigband&seed=9269&path=814.14134,833.14167,795.14167&xdur=13.122

f484a73 https://github.com/aboard-io/stellate/commit/f484a73d4781dc8e42a38d34315320e549f448c3