Hey guys!
I was making a simple patch to randomly change the frequency of an osc object. But I do not want the frequency to climb too much up or fall to much down, so I defined limits 20 and 600. So I want for the algorithm, when it falls lower than 20, go back to 20 and when it climbs higher than 600 - reset to 600.

When I click on the msgbox which holds the limit - it works. But alone it does not. I even tried putting a bang between moses and msgbox and the bang does flash, but the message is either not being sent of for some reason the float object does not get it or there is something else which I am missing.

I have attached the patch itself. Can someone please take a look. I feel it is important for me to understand what is going on here, since these are the basics.

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

[max 20]
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[min 600]

@mod said:

[max 20]
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[min 600]

Or [clip 20 600].

I did read about min and max but I thought they are doing different things? Will try clip.

But what is wrong in the patch? I mean, I tried sending a number through moses which then goes into a message box and then into float and then into a number - it works! Why doesn't it work in my patch?

I guess my main question is this - how to create feedback and change the initial number, pass the limit value to the float object. Because in my patch if you try it several times (click, say, on msgbox with 20) near the lower limit, very soon it will go into negative numbers, although ti shouldn't. So, although moses does catch the flow of numbers and sends them out from the correct outlet, for some reason those numbers do not make the msgbox with 20 send 20 to the float object. It only works if I click it.

And this is the problem - I do not understand why moses, by sending a number to a msgbox, does not make it send what it has written in it to the float object.

Guys, got help from pob at our puredata irc channel. Problem was in order of operations. Also, as I sorted this out, I used clip.