grehan

Hi I have been working on the below patch I followed with one of the BAZ Tutorials. Simple Probability. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas how I can maybe move on from here and go further with the patch.

Im trying to get further into using algorithms in my music so any suggestions are welcome.

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The first step might be getting into weighted probability or trying out different random number distributions. Check out the 

 for generating different kinds of random values. Also, try playing around with applying probabilities to various parameters in music. It's a pretty short leap to go from probabilities to Markov chains, so that might be something to check out as well. Here's a little tutorial on it 

. I also made a little patch that implements a weighted random probability table using the prob object.

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