Hi, (noob question)

I want to select from say 5 numbers (eg 12 23 34 45 56) randomly, continiously.

is this easy and if so, how so?

ps; im driving my external synth with midi and want to have some ctrl of note values (like a scale) rather than just random notes between 0-127

have attached patch for a laugh

appreciate any help in advance

cheers,
pure dadda

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

The easiest way would be to write the five numbers into a

Maelstorm thanks for this, i had a look on line following ur advice and found some tuts on how to make and read from a table. Good man

I love pd - its a bottomless p(d)it of fun

cheers

i often do this type of thing by sticking whatever notes i want into message boxes and then selecting them by doing:

[random 5] (or whatever number)
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[sel 0 1 2 3 4]
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[note( <----each of the sel outlets goes to a different note

also might be helpful.. if you are using a scale program the notes as low integers like 0 2 3 5 etc and then route them through a [+ 60] or whatever offset. makes programming things like key changes different scale patterns in midi notes much easier.

One of the reasons why I suggest using a table to store the note values (or something similar to this) is because it becomes really easy to switch to different sets (i.e. change scales). All you have to do is have the different scales as a list in their own message boxes with a 0 added to the beginning. Then you just send those messages to the

The rest of the patch goes unchanged, so you don't have to have a bunch of [sel] -> message box webs for each scale.

...holy crap man

I didn't know you could do that with tables.

i think you just changed my life

Blew my mind when I found out about that one, too.

we're moving away from the OP.......

I often make patches that look something like this (attached) I like the structure that it gives to the randomness.

Having a hard time imagining how to accomplish something similar with tables instead of messages.

I've had a couple of ideas, but they all seem more complex than its worth. Right now, I think i would put more than one sequence in the table starting at different offsets, i.e. sequence one starts at index 0, the next sequence starts at index 10, the next 20 etc. then you could randomly bounce between them by adding 10s to the counter.

just using random isn't really musical enough for me. I like to tame the randomness a little bit

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