Random Shuffle

Henry

As I was trying out the shuffle functionality, I found out about the several options there are for shuffle. I thought the random one was pretty cool, but then I noticed it shuffles randomly once. Although this is probably fine for most people, it left me wanting to shuffle on each cycle. As far as I can see, there's no setting for this. My next thought was to see if the scripting language could do something like this, but in the documentation, the shuffle paragraph is empty.

Is there a way to do this with the scripting language?

Henry

I played a bit more with MSL and found that Shuffle does work, so in that case I should be able to code something up.

Edit: Turns out that if you shuffle random twice, it seems to alternate between two permutations of shuffle. I saw in this thread, that there is a rand(low, high) function, so I might have to write my own shuffle function that selects a new permutation of subcycles and plays it.

jeff

Thanks, there must be something broken with the random number generator. I'll look at it.

When called from a script, the Shuffle function doesn't take any arguments so it will be limited to whatever the ShuffleMode=Random parameter does, which is what's broken.

It would be cool though if script Shuffle offered you more control, like pattens:

   Shuffle(1,3,2,3,4,3,1,1)

or randoms

  Shuffle(rand(1 4) rand(2 4) rand(3 4) 4)

Henry

Thanks for the quick reply, Jeff. Yeah, having an input parameter to the shuffle would be super cool!

jeff

I changed some things in build 36 that hopefully improved how random numbers are generated which might fix your Shuffle problem. Let us know if you notice any difference.

Henry

Yes, it works beautifully now. Thanks again Jeff!

benT

Hi @jeff ,
I was trying the Shuffle function in the MSL console. Still seems it is not taking any arguments, is this correct?

jeff

Yes, MSL Shuffle still needs to some work so it can have the same features as MOS Shuffle.