On 27/01/2022 10:33, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
On 1/27/22 10:10, martin brinkmann wrote:
thanks, i'll do that. i used [shell] basically for getting a random-seed (and filenames) via date, and it affects only a few patches,
if you need to read the date, you probably should use zexy's [date] (resp [time]). it works on all platforms, and is *much* faster than a call to an external program.
i need the date-as-a-filename and seeding [random] only when the patch is loaded, or when a file is saved, so speed does not matter much. platform independence would be nice though, and a 'vanilla'-solution even nicer...
if you want to generate a seed for your random number, you can use the new built in [file] to read some bytes from /dev/random (from your usage use [shell] together with date, i figure you already use a unix-like system).
yes. and i'll try that.
the randomness should be much better than just using some date-based thingy.
and better randomness would be great. [random] feels a bit more like a random walk, it looks like it tends to repeat recent values. (i might be mistaken, i tend to see patterns in noise...)
bis denn! martin