Please keep both. The periodicity of the old rand is useful for creating
some textures (and for old scores), the new rand is killer for appearing
truly random.

Grant
gcovell@c-bridge.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Berry [SMTP:mikeb@nmol.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, April 12, 1998 9:31 PM
> To:	csound@maths.ex.ac.uk
> Subject:	Re: Looking towards v3.48
> 
> 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?
> -- 
> Mike Berry
> mikeb@nmol.com
> http://www.nmol.com/users/mikeb
> 
>