Cycling 74 » Topic: Random trigger for a kick sound http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/random-trigger-for-a-kick-sound/feed Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:51:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/random-trigger-for-a-kick-sound/#post-64627 <![CDATA[Random trigger for a kick sound]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/random-trigger-for-a-kick-sound/#post-64627 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:07:41 +0000 Abstractionisms Hi there,

Currently I have a patch that triggers a kick sample by use of a bunch of “timepoint” objects. I was wondering what a simple way to trigger
the kick sound randomly would be? I don’t want the kick part of the composition to sound like a loop running at infinite. It’d be nice to have it
change itself through some use of maybe the “random” object? I’m sure I could figure out a hackjob way to do this if I spent some time on it, but I thought I’d ask to see what a more efficient way of doing this would be. I’m sure there are a lot of helpful objects for this that I don’t even know exist.

Here is the kick part of the patch:

– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –

the “whentokick” subpatch is currently what triggers the sound.
the “timeadjust” subpatch is just something I made to randomly delay the kick trigger by just a few milliseconds to try to
make it less “rigid.”

Thanks!!!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/random-trigger-for-a-kick-sound/#post-233156 <![CDATA[Re: Random trigger for a kick sound]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/random-trigger-for-a-kick-sound/#post-233156 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:11:18 +0000 shhhh I like to use a combination of random and < for this sort of thing. generate a random number between 1 and 100. use < and adjust the threshold so that you get a bang whatever percentage of the time. For example if you set it as "< 70" you'll get a trigger 70% of the time. if you set it as "< 10" then you'll get a trigger 10% of the time.

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