Quoting Askwazzup : > seed 0;<------------------------------------------ *how does > it work and what does "provide predictable results from an orchestra" mean?* If it generated truly random numbers every time you ran it would be different which makes debugging hard. So usually we use pseudo random numbers (PRN)-- a sequence that passes tests of randomness but as generated by a program cannot be random. The seed indicated where in the random sequence it starts. An explicit seed gives repeatable results; a seed from the clock however gives different sequences (strictly from a different place in the sequence). Read the manual for seed. ==John ff Send bugs reports to https://github.com/csound/csound/issues Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound"