Whoa! Nice! It worked very well here. Although sometimes I have to press the "Go" button more than once to get different results, even when I change the paramethers. Will do some more testing. I need some time to understand this patch but it looks awesome.
2011/3/4 Matt Barber <brbrof...@gmail.com> > I attached an example that will do something like what you want, using list > abs. > > Without much trouble you could make this into an abstraction. > > It follows the first solution someone posted -- pick a bunch of random > numbers and then scale them so the total equals the target. I added a > few things, though -- it also rounds the numbers to the nearest > subdivision that you specify, and it goes through the list and moves > anything lower than the min or higher than the max duration to the min > or max, compensating elsewhere, until all the durations are in range. > I capped the number of searches for outliers to 1000, but you could > change that or get rid of it as need be. > > I haven't tested this thoroughly, so let me know. > > MB > > > > >> Note that if you sum 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10, that's already 55. How many > time > >> units do you have per 48 seconds ? (do you have a base tempo at all ?) > >> > >> And then what do you want the distribution to be like ? Is there any > >> maximum duration of a chord, minimum duration of a chord, etc ? > >> > >> > > It's funny that you said that. I slept over this problem and yes, I want > the > > chords to have a minimun and maximun duration. They don't need to bee all > of > > different durations, the important is this section of the piece to sound > > like random/chaotic durations, and as we know random numbers (or > durations?) > > sometimes don't look random. I will even make this again for the attacks > of > > individual notes of the chords so the section will have a truly chaotic > > feeling. > > And by the way the tempo of this section is quarter = 60 so it's very > easy > > to do this. (thank you Mathieu for making me think about it more deeply) > > > > Thank you guys for the other answers. This really helps. > > > > Caio Barros >
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