ComfortableInClouds

Here is an audio rate sequencer i am in the process of completing. I've been struggling with getting the sequencer to give rolls of a variable length. Here is how I am trying to do it:

Each step has a number of "spaces" - these are the total number of samples in a given step. Roll values can be any even divisor of the total number of spaces, excluding one. So, for example, if a step has 12 samples in it, the roll can be of values 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6.

The reason is you have to have a 0 following each 1 in order for it to be a click, and thus trigger the sample to play (using zigzag~ connected to wave~). The number of zeros following a 1 depends on the roll value. For example, with 12 spaces, a roll value of 6 means 1 zero for each one, 4 means 2 zeros for each one, 3 means 3 zeros for each one, etc.

Though this seems straightforward, my patch is not working and I have absolutely no idea why. The part in the big pink box is where my problem lies. I would deeply appreciate any help. This has been a bewildering and frustrating experience. Thanks for your time.

variable-roll-value-for-audio-rate-sequencer

if anyone is interested, i came to a brief and simple solution through javascripting (was my first time using the js object. i was surprised at how amazingly easy it was to incorporate some line code for processes that can get rather convoluted with strictly max objects).

and here is the section of the patch that uses it:

function list()
{
    var i;
    var j;
    var k;

     for(i=0; i
    {
        if(arguments[i] == 0)
        {
            for(j=0; j
            {
                outlet(0, 0);
                outlet(1, index);
                index++;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            while(spaces%arguments[i] != 0)
            {
                arguments[i] = arguments[i] - 1;
            }
            for(j=0; j
            {
                outlet(0, 1);
                outlet(1, index);
                index++;    
                    for(k=0; k
                    {
                         outlet(0, 0);
                         outlet(1, index);
                         index++;
                    }
            }
        }
    }
}

Variable Roll Value for Audio Rate Sequencer