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Subject: Re: random LFO

From: "korgpolyex800" <korgpolyex800@...>
Date: 2008-09-21

If you would just buy the kit, you would find out how random the
random waveform generator is. :-)

Mike

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, korgpolyex800 wrote:
>
> > Since we're working in 8 bits, it's periodicity is short. And it
could
> > be made to be much better than it is. I just got a result that
sounded
> > OK and stayed with that. But I am sure that I will go back and
revisit
> > this little code snippet and work on it some time.
> ============
>
> i won't pretend to understand the algorithm right now... but i'm
> wondering if it can be seeded with `random` midi or wheel data...?
it may
> be a naive suggestion, but if the seed can be the address of, say, the
> most recently recevied midi note/CC message (sync messages should be
> ignored), would that benefit the randomness? and if midi messages are
> being received while the random LFO is running, then it would also
> increase the period?
>
>
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