I'm trying to build a patch that will read a sound file and cycle randomly through the individual samples, or larger groupings of samples.

This is my first attempt here using a table. It doesn't work very well at the moment.

Here are a few of the problems floating around in my head

1. I can't get a number box to take a number as big as the sound file, so when random puts out a number too high I get a +

2. Currently I can't think of a way to get it to play "chunks". I'd like to be able to say select a chunk size and have the program select random chunks of the sound file at that size. I can imagine vline helping me with this, but I'm not sure how to get vline to accept multiple variables, or how to control the chunk size.

ideally, I would be able to play with the chunk size to get something that sounds more or less music with big chunks, and more like noise at small chunks.

I'm sure there's a better approach to this whole problem, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone had done this same exact project before, so I'd greatly appreciate your suggestions!

thanks!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/garbles.pd

The number box is taking your numbers properly, it's just too small to display them. If you right click on it and select properties you can change its width so it can display larger numbers. Also, the number is not really necessary in your patch unless you want to actually see the numbers being generated.

In case you were not aware, [soundfiler] outputs the number of samples after it loads the file. You can plug the outlet of your [soundfiler] object into the right inlet of your random object and you would be able to get rid ofthe [*~1000].

If you want to get [vline~] to accept multiple variables then you can use something like

[pack f f f]
|
[$1, $2 $3(
|
[vline~]

The three f's in the pack object correspond to the $1, $2, and $3 in the message box.

I modified your patch so it does what I think you are trying to do.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/garbles_2_electric_boogaloo.pd

Thanks so much! that was exactly what I was looking for, and it sounds awesome. Now I kind of want to plug a break beat into the thing