Hello,

Maybe my question seems obvious simplistic but I didn't find it.
How could we get a random number from a negative range to a positive range (-100 ->>> 1000) ?

My wish is to obtain some results like this :

• 10, -2, 56, 78, 89, -1, 67, -20, 28, 84, 56, -150.....

Moreover, I have a second question.

I set a random timer which gives us interesting results (attachment below)
So, my problem is coming now from the periodicity. I want that when a short value is returned, the next value has to be very short also and followed like this by an other one.
What I mean is something groovy like this :

______ - - - - _______ - --______--_---_---___--_--____________--------_---_-

Any advice to give me ?
Many thanks

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/randomtimer.pd

To create a random number in a range -N to N first make a random number between 0 and 2N then subtract N from it. So, per your example, use [random 200][- 100]

The second question is more involved as there is more than one way to do it and some ways are better depending what you really want. Rather than give you a solution here's some hopefully useful tricks.

[random] doesn't have to give a range fixed by its argument. If you pass a float to [random] it will give you a random number between 0 and the float.

A random number in the range 0 to N can be converted to a smaller or larger random number by dividing it and rounding with [int], or multiplying it.

To store the last value in a float box pass it to the right (cold) inlet and then bang the left. Banging the left inlet again will retrieve the last number.

Hope this helps.

Many thanks obiwannabe,

it helps me for sure.
I'll try it this now !