picking random wav files, but weighted by file size?

Reply to picking random wav files, but weighted by file size? on Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:51:41 GMT

NOISEBOB — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:51:41 GMT

so, imagine we have three pools of sound samples (vocals, guitar and drums, for instance) of different lengths, and we want a sound from each pool to be played simultaneously, by random

picking them by random and playing is easy enough, but what if we want them to be played so they fit to each other? ie. samples should only be played along other samples of the same length, more or less.

i imagine it's possible to first sort them size-wise and then pick them by random?

any ideas?

Reply to picking random wav files, but weighted by file size? on Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:52:31 GMT

toxonic — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:52:31 GMT

@NOISEBOB why don't you make a proper selection of the samples in the pool before? there are a lot of other attributes besides file size for samples to fit to each other from a musician point of view, so i'd suggest to make a proper preselection. if this is not, what you wanted to hear, you might consider going a little further with your explanation of what you are looking for...

Reply to picking random wav files, but weighted by file size? on Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:21:49 GMT

NOISEBOB — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:21:49 GMT

@toxonic well.. it's a little of both.

the idea is, to have loads of samples in the 1-2 second range, but also a bunch in the 5 second range and then some longer ones.. picked by random and played together as "songs". by a couple of hundred samples, the idea is that by all the possible combinations, there will be millions of songs.