The kslider and the coll objects.
Can someone suggest a more efficient way of the following:
I select one or more notes on the kslider which then get fed into a coll object.
The coll object can then be told to output a random note (as a number) based on the kslider data fed into it?
This is the method I currently use, but as you can see it is not efficient. Although it works, it sends out too much data for one random selection.
Thanks
There are a few problems with your patch. You aren't getting random numbers from your [coll] because you are always sending the "next" message. You are sometimes getting more than one value because your [uzi] is triggering "next" between 1 and 4 times as set by the [random] object.
Here is the method I would attempt using [table] instead of [coll] because [table] outputs a random number from its contents on receiving a bang. I have also added a simple method of octave scaling. If you are interested in generating "random" music in this way I would suggest looking at Karlheinz Essl's Real Time Composition Library which is a number of abstractions and externals for creating generative music. It is very helpful if you want to explore creating more "musical" melodic and rhythmic patterns. You can find a link to download it on maxobjects.com
lh
The table object... Brilliant!
I am familiar with the Essl Realtime Library but I'm not gonna use it for this patch.
Thanks for the info and your help. :)