new to max msp, generative music advice

hi

i am new to this program and i have been introduced to it via the sonic art degree that i am currently studying at college. i am working my way through the tutorials and am getting my head around the basics and am slowly making progress.

we have to complete an assignment using max msp in a couple of months and need to make a patch and a soundpiece that was made using this patch.

i have an idea to make a patch that makes a generative music piece starting from a sample that i load into it that is continually effected in a variety of ways and recorded by max msp as a wav file

i have been loading a sample using replace and buffer, then i have tried to separate out different numbers from it using an external i found called fiddle. i have also experimented with the drunk object too, but not with much success so far

i think that i would like to do something like : use fiddle to generate different numbers based on the type of sample fed into it, then feed these numbers into other objects like drunk (are there others like drunk? i am slowly learning) and then feed the results back to the start of the chain to be effected again, hopefully forming a continually changing generative music piece.

sorry about the long (first) post but can anyone offer me any helpful advice to help mew complete this task? any examples of similar ideas? what problems am i likely to encounter? what objects would you use to achieve something like this?

many thanks in advance, i cant wait to get my head around this program properly