[PD] random seed

[derek holzer]

derek holzer wrote:
> has anybody noticed that it doesn't seem to matter what seed you give 
> the [random] object, it just goes through the same sequence every time. 

slimboyfatboyslim <slimboyfatboyslim at slimboyfatboyslim.org> wrote:
> yup, I experienced that in both PD and Max, actually it seems the seeds is not working.... 

A brief investigation of the random objects in MaxLib seem to indicate 
that they may not suffer from this problem. They don't take a seed 
argument, but when I use them, my generative sound-patch doesn't sound 
the same every time it starts up ;-)

d.

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