Suggeestion for midiNoteRandom

[chardin]

First, thank you for midiChords and the entire pizmidi collection.

I was playing with midiProbability and it's close to what I need. It's working just as described, but I was hoping for a bit more control.

My suggestion is to assign a probability to each of 16 steps. Each step would have a percentage slider (0 - 100) or text box for manual entry (again 0 to 100). At 100% the step would always play. At 0%, never.

In this example, only MIDI notes on the quarter beats would be played:

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Step  Pct
  1:  100
  2:    0
  3:    0
  4:    0
  5:  100
  6:    0
  7:    0
  8:    0
  9:  100
 10:    0
 11:    0
 12:    0
 13:  100
 14:    0
 15:    0
 16:    0

In this example, MIDI notes on the quarter beats are always played. Notes on the 1/8 beats are played 50 percent of the time. The 1/16th notes in the last 2 beats are played 33 percent of the time:

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Step  Pct
  1:  100
  2:    0
  3:   50
  4:    0
  5:  100
  6:    0
  7:   50
  8:    0
  9:  100
 10:   33
 11:   50
 12:   33
 13:  100
 14:   33
 15:   50
 16:   33

I hope this makes sense. I also hope a plugin can detect what beat is being played from the host.

[insertpizhere]

Nice idea.