Play random sample

[RayMarble]

I have an event that plays a tiny bleep every time it's executed. Is there a way to make it play a random sound from a pool of say 5 samples?

My first idea was to get a sample from appdir + apppath + name of the sample + random number from 1-10 and just name the samples

name of the sample 001
name of the sample 002
etc
but it can't work since there's no "use calculation" when selecting files? Is there some other way to do it?

[RayMarble]

ok I gave up and just tried to change the attributes of the sample before it's played (volume, frequency). So I set it like:

(event happens):
Change volume of the sample to random 40-60%
Change frequency of the sample to 30-70%
Play sample.

but the settings have absolutely no effect? If I put them in a different order:

(event happens):
Play sample
Change volume of sample to random 40-60%
Change frequency of sample to 40-60%

then only every second activation of sample is affected? Why would that be?

[dragonguy]

I think this may be a bug of some sort.

[James]

You could try using the Onu extension instead of MMF2's build in sounds.

[Olivier]

Maybe try this?

(event happens):
Play sample

(event happens):
Change volume of sample to random 40-60%
Change frequency of sample to 40-60%

Or this?

(event happens):
Change volume of sample to random 40-60%
Change frequency of sample to 40-60%

(event happens):
Play sample

[OldManClayton]

OR. Set value to random (4) + 1

Value = 1; play sample 1 set value back to 0
Value = 2; play sample 2 set value back to 0
etc.

[RayMarble]

Thanks for the help guys, really appreciate it!

Onu extension... Unfortunately I've never heard of it and this playinmg samples task is something so simple that I want to learn how to do without extensions. Don't want to get addicted to extensions so early in my, er, programming career
(Edit: heh just as I was typing this... problems!)

Breaking the events and trying to rearrange them is very tempting but in case I bump into another weird thing I know I'll just waste more time in trying to understand why it doesn't work as I expect it to and, worst of all, probably won't learn anything in the end.

The "OR. Set value to random (4) + 1" is probably the simplest one so I'll go with that (how did something so obvious escape me we'll never find out!). Ta!