Maybe this may be of interest:
http://www.random.org/sounds/description/
Kind regards,
Loerenzo
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Andrew Faraday wrote:
I'm fairly sure that [snapshot~] doesn't generate random numbers, but
marks the current point of an audio signal.
indeed
Although this whole thing's got me thinking...
If you use [snapshot~], attached to a real world sound source [adc~]
to generate random numbers, then increasing volume would increase the
range of your random generation. For instance [adc~]|[snapshot~]
(plus a bang)|[+ 1]|[* 10]|[int]
first of all: [adc~] is _not_ a random number generator.
it is an interface to the outside world. whatever is attached to your
soundcard (or whatever feeds [adc~] will determine what comes out of
[snapshot~].
e.g. if i connect [adc~] to [dac~] then i might hear whatever is
recorded by my built-in microphone. i would not consider this "noise"
in the strict mathematical sense.
if you connect an analog noise generator to your soundcard, then you
might get a nice (and truely random, though coloured) noise.
now a real-world analog-digital converter always produces a (hopefully
small) bit of thermal nose, which can be used as either a noise-source
by itself (but take care, if you speak into the microphone...) or as a
truely-random seed generator for a pseudo-random number generator.
the latter might give more what you would expect.
the former has (apart from the "microphone" problem) the drawback,
that it will only generate a single "random" number per audio-block
(or to be precise: 64 for of them); which might be just too few for
your application...
In this case a sound source at a solid 1 - -1 volume (such as [osc~])
would give you a number from 0 to 20, when the bang is sent.
but a quieter sound source e.g. 0.2 - -0.2 would provide a number
from 0 - 4
Anyone fault my logic?
simple primary school mathematics?
([-1..1] + 1)*10 = [0..2]*10 = [0..20]
([-0.2..0.2] + 1)*10 = [0.8..1.2]*10 = [8..12]
fmgasdr
IOhannes
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