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Re: Looking towards v3.48

Date1998-04-13 12:34
FromJean Piche
SubjectRe: Looking towards v3.48
Mike Berry wrote:
> 
> A comment here on rand.  The period of rand in csound on most platforms is
> 65536, or less than 2 seconds of white noise at 44.1 kHz.  The repeating is audible.
>         I have code for a random number generator which will repeat for most seeds
> about every 1 billion years at 44.1 kHz.  The low end is about 100000 years.
> I would be happy to pass this on to jpff.  The question is: Do we replace rand
> with the new code or make it a new ugen, to preserve the flawed character of
> rand for old scores?


Yes Please! My vote is to scrap the old. Question: Would this be adaptable to
randi and randh as well?


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