How to hear the different kind of random_sources

[brendanmac]

Hi
look for “scale” in the tutorial and also in the Help/Lang document. One can get tied up in knots using ‘custom’ arrays or rings for constrained random melodies. Sonic Pi provides many useful functions for creating such patterns.

Look at the examples (and mr bomb’s response) in this post:

Constrained 'random' melody generator

Hi @mrbombmusic and thanks for replying (and even bigger thanks for your indispensable tutorial series too!!). I will def check out those two links, but I am aware of the repetitive results when trying to randomise a random seed (after watching and digesting every single one of your videos) . And I chose the upper bound 50 because it gives me ‘some’ randomisation, any lower and the random seed sticks in predictable ways. Is using Time.now computationally expensive? I’ll give it a ratt…

PD-Pi