I can confirm that renumber doesn't seem to do anything in this case.

Thank you for replying. Is it possible that pulling contents from a dict treats data as symbols somehow? Anyway, I don't get any error message.

Yes, the indexes in your coll are symbols. You can see it when sorting the indexes (sort -1 -1).

I did a "work around" to solve this case. Here's the solution if anyone interested. Thank you

Hi, I am a complete beginner with MAX and to be honest I am finding it really complicated. :-(

I want to create a simple melody on a synth using the 'coll' object. I do not know where to start.....please can someone point me in the direction of where to start? I can send you my patch, but is a working progress and it is not at all completed yet. I want my finished patch to have the following: 1) Simple synth playing a basic melody with small delay. 2) 2 drums - 1 snare and 1 kick drum to accompany the melody of the synth 3) A small delay added to the synth 4) Incorporate 'preset' to add creativity to the patch.

Can anyone help?

Hi Kate. It would be best if you would have started this as a new thread, that way others in this tread won't get notifications to your query. Here is a small patch to answer some of your questions. If you have any further questions on this, start it as a new thread and ill probably see it and answer (or someone else will). I don't mean this to be rude.

Hi,

Thanks, I will start a new thread. I will title it 'beginners help'