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I'm attempting to get a noise~ object to randomly modulate a carrier frequ.

however when i look at the number~ object connected to my noise~ the values are fractional, how can i get these values scaled up to between -1 and 1, the scale~ object seems to not deal with this and as the numbers are erratic coming from my noise~ object i don't know their definate status to put them in...

I'm attempting to get a noise~ object to randomly modulate a carrier frequ. 

modulating-with-noise

Here's the output of the following patch:

These numbers are what you'd expect; noise between -1 and 1.

Note that the snapshot~here is behaving like a sample and hold, really.

If you connect noise~ directly as a modulation source you will get... not "random", but a noise on everything.

if you want "random" modulation, you'll want noise~ -> sah~ or similar, and then sample the noise at some interval - hell, that interval could be randomized as well.

print: -0.414183
print: -0.754546
print: -0.352599
print: 0.564973
print: -0.001830
print: -0.053008
print: 0.411439
print: -0.608489
print: 0.887208
print: 0.898530
print: -0.574523
print: 0.468049
print: 0.026246
print: 0.100068
print: 0.689515
print: -0.205413
print: -0.584716
print: -0.448394
print: 0.203553
print: -0.628875
print: -0.945678
print: -0.746855
print: -0.032408
print: -0.802336
print: 0.943361
print: -0.795317
print: -0.018370
print: -0.725798
print: -0.917601
print: -0.593779
print: 0.245668
print: -0.399260
print: -0.528563
print: -0.142241
print: 0.759706
print: 0.177278
print: 0.110475
print: 0.559297
print: -0.476256
print: -0.996184
print: 0.999513
print: -0.489165
print: 0.537782
print: 0.080354
print: 0.138551
print: 0.712373
print: -0.198180
print: -0.593108
print: -0.472411
print: 0.163911
print: -0.684142
print: 0.983430
print: -0.833373
print: -0.134551
print: -0.920104
print: 0.809968
print: -0.944335
print: -0.183013
print: -0.906066
print: 0.886506

These numbers are what you'd expect; noise between -1 and 1.
Note that the snapshot~here is behaving like a sample and hold, really.

if you want "random" modulation, you'll want noise~ -> sah~ or similar, and then sample the noise at some interval - hell, that interval could be randomized as well.


this might be along the way you want to go-- you can also use pink~ instead of noise~ and you might want to low-pass filter the modulating noise instead of using sah~ there's millions of variations; just remember to somehow scale your modulation source to a useful range (using mult and add in this patch, but use scale~ if you've got max 6)

this is outstanding! i'm loving the help on this forum, thank you kindly sir!

Modulating with noise