Hi all, beginner here.
I'm trying to find a way to simultaneously modulate my METRO time and the ramp time of my LINE. I tried to crudely illustrate that concept in the red line drawing on my patch.

What I have here is

1. METRO sends regular pulses to RANDOM
2. with each pulse RANDOM chooses a random value
3. values ramp from one to the next via LINE
4. LINE passes values to NUMBER
5. NUMBER passes values to PHASOR~ as frequency values

I want to be able to use one control that overrides the METRO time with a value that simultaneously becomes my LINE's ramp time. So when METRO is 1000ms, LINE ramp time is also 1000ms; when METRO is 750ms, LINE ramp time is also 750ms, etc.

Any insights on how to patch this up? Thank you!

Instead of the message box, use [pack f 500] (could be [pack f f] but the 500 initializes the time value).

The [pack] will have two inlets. Your random result goes into the left inlet; the time goes into the right inlet.

Then you can dump the "$1 500“ message box.

hjh

Beautiful, that did the trick! Thank you!