Hello, I am new to PD and am attempting to create a sequencer where, after the user (me) enters the scale notes (as numbers in a list), they can be reorganized instantly with a single click. I've almost got a workaround that works, but my patch currently relies on list append and list split 1 cycling back into it... when it reaches the cycle at the end of the measure it adds an extra beat. I can just subtract a beat from the count to even it out, but then my last two notes in the sequence are always the same, and that's no good.

If I could just instantly reorganize the original list my patch would be much more elegant. Is this possible somehow?

[list-abs/list-sort]?

List-sort seems to just put the list in either ascending or descending order only, can it do a seemingly random rearrangement?

I can't figure out what list-abs is supposed to do at all. To my untrained eye it doesn't appear to do anything. I can't find any documentation on the net about list-abs, could you please explain how to use it or point me in the right direction for a tutorial?

Hi,
I've attached a patch that seems to do that, If I understand correctly what you're after. It requires [zexy/urn].

It would be interesting to know if there's an even simpler way to do it.

randomize.list.order.pd

I thought a bit more about this since it's quite a useful abstraction, and this is the best I could come up with. This time it works with lists containing symbols as well (the one I posted earlier only worked with all floats lists) and has a vanilla version of urn I found somewhere on the forum.

Hope this helps.

list.randomize.pd

edit: there was an error on the trigger object.

there's a list-shuffle in sfruit that seems to do what you want, I misunderstood at first, not knowing that the re-ordering you wanted was a random one

@weightless That is perfect, thank you so much!