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I have a OMN. I want to replace one of the lengths with rest, randomly. Is there a function to do this?

 

Suppose I have a list of lengths either in the form '(1/4 1/4 1/4 1/4) or '(q q q q), is it correct to replace one of the elements randomly with '- to mean rest?

 

Regards,

Rangarajan

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you could do it like this on "pure-LISP-level"

(setf lengths '(1/4 2/8 3/8 4/4))

(loop for i in lengths
  with repl = (random (length lengths))
  for cnt = 0 then (incf cnt)
  when (= cnt repl) collect (* i -1)  else collect i)

 

best wishes

andré

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Andre,

Nice code, Thank you.

 

I am looking for a function that works on a OMN, not just a list of lengths. 

 

Also, lengths can be represented in the format '(q q e e q s) instead of the corresponding numeric fractions. In such cases, the loop will not work (you can't multiply 'q by -1).

 

Regards,

Rangarajan

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okay, i understand... i'm "not working" with '(q e q...), i'm always working with NUMBERS (with pitches too). it's easier to write/handle the values, easier to do my own specific code (and multipy, add... whatever) - only on "def-score" i'm changing the representation by generating OMN...

 

regards,

andré

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The OMN decode and encode functions (not documented):

(omn-encode '(s q e = = - -))
=> (1/16 1/4 1/8 1/8 1/8 -1/8 -1/8)

(omn-encode '(c4 = = =))
=> (c4 c4 c4 c4)

(omn-decode '(1/16 1/4 1/8 1/8 1/8 -1/8 -1/8))
=> (s q e = = - -)

 

What we need is a documentation of predicates etc... functions used in Opusmodus for developers and programmers.

I hope we can add this part to our system with version 2.0

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