JMSL Tutorial: JSyn and JMSL, Controlling all input ports of a SynthNote, part 2

In the previous tutorial, we knew enough about our SynthNote to hand-code the MusicShape data, as we were assured that the "rate" port would be controlled by dimension 4.

Here we show how to generate a MusicShape algorithmically, without knowing the details of a SynthNote's DimensionNameSpace.  For our SynthNote, we will use FilteredSawtoothBL, which has three SynthInput ports: Rate, cutoff, and frequency.  For these ports, we will generate data by chosing a value randomly between the low and high limits for each.

The applet  below plays an algorithmically generated MusicShape with a SynthNoteAllPortsInstrument that uses FilteredSawtoothBL

The essential code follows: 

    ins = new SynthNoteAllPortsInstrument(8, "com.softsynth.jsyn.circuits.FilteredSawtoothBL");

    double[] data = new double[myShape.dimension()];

    double duration = JMSLRandom.choose();
    double pitch = JMSLRandom.choose(40, 80);
    double amplitude = JMSLRandom.choose();
    double hold = duration * JMSLRandom.choose(2.0);

    data[0] = duration;
    data[1] = pitch;
    data[2] = amplitude;
    data[3] = hold;

    // TRICKY: we will choose random values for dimensions higher than 3 by using high/low limits
    for (int dim = 4; dim < myShape.dimension(); dim++) {
         double value = JMSLRandom.choose(myShape.getLowLimit(dim), myShape.getHighLimit(dim));
         data[dim] = value;
    }

    myShape.add(data);
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  JMSL is based upon HMSL (C) Phil Burk, Larry Polansky and David Rosenboom.