Greetings,
To organize a randomized distribution of sounds in an 8-channel set-up while avoiding the distribution of multiple sounds in one speaker, I wish to have a pool of values to which and from which values can be constantly added and subtracted.

I have thought of modifying a list, but

only lets you add or completely remove up to two sets of values, whereas I would need to be able to start with 8 values

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

and remove, for example, 5 and have

1 2 3 4 6 7 8

then 7

1 2 3 4 6 8

then 1

2 3 4 6 8

then add 7

2 3 4 6 7 8

The "random" for the selection of the speaker would then be determined by and in the last example, a random 6 would correspond to 8.

I have thought of using "set", however set doesn't seem work on lists and only lets you add, not remove individual values.

Many thanks for you time,
Stephan

I made up something similar recently with [msgfile], but i guess i could have made it with the list-abstractions.

Take a look at the list-abs library in the help browser if you're on Pd-extended. It has a lot of abstractions for manipulating lists that makes things like this much easier.

Thanks for your replies. I am looking through this long list of list-abstractions. If I don't find any evident solution here, I will try it with [msgfile]

Thanks again for your help. Maelstorm. I was able to construct what I needed using [list-delete], which I found in the help browser.