There's two major ways people use it: all probabilities to the center, or strongly biased to a side (I.E., biased to go 00 01 03 06 10 15 21 28).
I just have no idea how to interchange data in a way that'd match people's intuitions. We've got 36 nodes rather than a multiple of 8, and a different amount of potential nodes per step.
I think the least worse behavior for it would be, upon receiving a sequence, to treat it as a 8 step sequence, and assign its values to every node of the corresponding step, and let the user work from here. But I have no idea whatsoever what people would want to export. Exporting only the top or bottom path would encourage a specific way of working with the device and restrict its potential. Exporting a random possible 8 step sequence would be more in the spirit of the module, but would not be intuitive.
I'd like to see how the reference implementations do things and how much enthusiasm users have for it before I decide to do this, Darius has some really messy code due to my lack of experience with C++, so it'd require a very major rewrite, without breaking existing sequences that provide a fixed seed to the PRNG.
Received a suggestion via private conversation to add the proposed portable sequence format to Darius. For now I haven't decided.
See also: https://github.com/VCVRack/Rack/issues/1708
Copying my reaction here:
I considered it, but the main problem is that it has a different amount of nodes per step. This is how it represents its steps internally:
There's two major ways people use it: all probabilities to the center, or strongly biased to a side (I.E., biased to go
00 01 03 06 10 15 21 28
).I just have no idea how to interchange data in a way that'd match people's intuitions. We've got 36 nodes rather than a multiple of 8, and a different amount of potential nodes per step.
I think the least worse behavior for it would be, upon receiving a sequence, to treat it as a 8 step sequence, and assign its values to every node of the corresponding step, and let the user work from here. But I have no idea whatsoever what people would want to export. Exporting only the top or bottom path would encourage a specific way of working with the device and restrict its potential. Exporting a random possible 8 step sequence would be more in the spirit of the module, but would not be intuitive.
I'd like to see how the reference implementations do things and how much enthusiasm users have for it before I decide to do this, Darius has some really messy code due to my lack of experience with C++, so it'd require a very major rewrite, without breaking existing sequences that provide a fixed seed to the PRNG.