Thank you, Joachim.  I had missed rnd31.  Its seedable and 
seems very good ! 


On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:53 am, joachim heintz wrote:
> what about using rnd31 instead of birnd?
> 	joachim
>
> Am 22.03.2011 22:37, schrieb Adam:
> > The opcode Seed effects the results of Linrand, but not
> > of Birnd,  and I find this a little strange.
> >
> > My desire was an orchestra whose performance could be
> > repeatable or effected completely by the one Seed value.
> >
> > FYI  I am filling ftables with the output of Linrand, then drawing
> > numbers from the tables for various purposes.  This is satisfactory,
> > however I have no bipolar form of Linrand, as Birnd is uneffected
> > by Seed.
> >
> > The wonderful generators of Gen21 appear to be unseedable.
> >
> > Would it be desireable to alter Birnd to operate like Linrand,
> > and to be effected by Seed ?  I doubt this would not be
> > backward compatible or break existing pieces.
> >
> > Alternatively an option could be added to Linrand to coerce
> > a bipolar output.
> >
> > It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of others.
> >
> > http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/seed.html
> > http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/linrand.html
> > http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/birnd.html
> >
> >
> >
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