On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:58:19AM +0000, Ed Kelly wrote: > I'd like my patch to create a different random each time it's loaded. > > I'm using [urn] so I tried feeding a [random 500] -> [seed $1( into the > [urn], > but every time it's the same result. According to the documentation "if you > don't give it a seed then each instance of random gets its own seed" but > every > time I initiate the patch the result is the same. > > Is there an object that will give me the current date and/or time, so that I > can > use that as a seed to the random and urn objects???
Apart from the solutions based on current time, I also had success with using the adc~ as a seed on RjDj/iPthing. Of course it needs audio input, but if you have that, just [snapshot~] and scale accordingly to get a sufficiently random seed. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht Do You RjDj.me? _ ______footils.org__ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
