Changelog
Help

Have something to say?

Tell us how we could make the product more useful to you.

In Progress

Large Sample Library Performance

My Rando sample database is currently more than 1.6 million one-shots and loops. I assume majority of people won’t have collections that large, but some of us drawn to software like rando will. It’s actually tools like this that made me start collecting a lot more samples because it unlocks the ability to easily discover and utilize sounds from a large local library. Anyway, rando performs as well or better than other sample library tools, but wanted to share a few observations that might be useful for optimizing rando for large sample collections. #1 - It appears one of the first things rando does when it is opened is to check if there are any new samples found in the set sample locations, before the GUI even appears. I timed it with a stopwatch. If there are no new files found that rando doesn’t know about already, it currently takes about 10 seconds on my machine before the GUI appears and if there are a bunch of new samples in folders, it takes even longer. Last timed 50 seconds before the rando GUI is finally displayed on the screen when I had added a bunch of samples to my folders. No loading indicator, just nothing happens on screen for that long. People with fewer files and folders probably won’t have that extreme of a delay, but my suggestion is perhaps that new file check that occurs can be set to not take place on opening the plugin and instead be initiated manually when going to the sample locations settings area. #2 - The search settings area will total up the number of results from whatever filters are set. But even if no search filters are set, it will still query the total of all samples present in the whole database every time. That total is fixed and doesn’t change until new samples are added or removed, so it could be optimized to just store that big total of all samples somewhere instead of querying that number every time. For 1,651,890 results, it takes about 15-20 seconds for the search page to return that number back from the database.

njlang 26 days ago

31
💡

Feature Request - Rando

In Progress

Access to Sub Folders

Theres needs to be an ability to choose what specific folder in a folder you want to randomize. For instance. One producer kits has like 12 different volumes . Adding all those folders will crowd the location area .. There has to be a way OR maybe give us a way to rename folders for Rando. If I got 12 different folders labeled Kicks I’ll add them but I need to know which kick folder it’s from . I don’t know maybe i’m just rambling. But there has to be a way to access sub folders because Category isn’t working it actually zeros out the actual search of what I select.

Seige Monstracity 3 months ago

2
💡

Feature Request - Rando

In Progress

Add threshold to Auto Find Sample Start

Hi, I see a lot of samples where the sample start catches some low level activity before the first transient of a sample. I was wondering if a threshold parameter could be added to the Auto Find Sample Start option? That way, it could basically ignore audio below a certain threshold and start the sample where the first big transient happens. Hope that makes sense.

nathandanielmusic 3 months ago

5
💡

Feature Request - Rando

Fewer but bigger piano keys

I find the new piano keys too small. They are shorter and the white keys are narrower. I can set the range, but the on-screen keyboard doesn't resize accordingly, so with fewer keys, each key becomes larger. This adjustment would be especially helpful when I use the app solely with the mouse, which is usually the case. When there are fewer keys, I just randomize more often.

Rivanni 4 months ago

1
💡

Feature Request - Rando

Include locked samples in the search results

I had multiple samples locked on the piano keys, with some marked as favorites. However, I couldn't distinguish from the piano keys which locked samples were favorites. I then searched for favorites to export those samples, but they did not appear in the search results. It turns out that locked samples do not show up in search results. I would like to see the locked samples included, as not seeing some of them is confusing and impractical.

Rivanni 4 days ago

2
💡

Feature Request - Rando

In Progress

b18: analysis percentage

The background analysis is greatly improved now that it is actually running in the background. What is confusing, though, is that after closing Rando and reopening it, the progress always starts at 0%. It’s not clear whether it continues where it left off (as it should) and the percentage reflects the new progress, or whether the whole analysis starts over again (as one might think when seeing the zero). It would be helpful if progress picked up from the last percentage. The same for when the analysis it turned off and back on. Currently, the progress remains at 0% when toggling this setting, but CPU usage indicates the analysis is running.

Rivanni 10 days ago

2
💡

Feature Request - Rando

no samples

I just installed today’s beta 17. Thumbs up for the UI improvements. I cannot test anything, though, because there are no samples. In Sample Locations, I still see all the folders that I added a few months back. Some of them have a yellow exclamation mark. None of the folders moved from their original location. When I add a new folder, nothing happens. The folder is added to the list but the number of samples stays 0. When I remove an existing folder and re-add it, it doesn’t appear in the list. After I restart Rando, the new folder is not there. Everything looks like it hasn’t been updated. Database problem? What is the best thing to do?

Rivanni 18 days ago

7
💡

Feature Request - Rando

Rando2 always stops scanning at 70% completed

For the last 4 beta versions, including the latest (17), rando2 will not finish scanning my libraries. My first library (230,000) completes all scanning without trouble, but my second library (580,000) gets to around 150,000 remaining and just stops scanning. Restarting the DAW and application just brings rando2 right back to the same point, and deleting + re-indexing takes 5+ hours and leads to the same problem. Should I delete and re-index again for beta 17? I did this on beta 16, 15, etc, but I dont have the 5+ hours right now.

Milkman 18 days ago

1
💡

Feature Request - Rando

A Couple of UI Enhancements

There seems to be some kind of bug with changing the GLIDE parameter by dragging its value. The parameter often starts responding only on the second attempt. Also, following the current UI alignment logic, this set of buttons looks like it should be shifted slightly to the right to better match the margin alignment of the left side of the UI and to give a bit more spacing to the right of the record button.

Den Unison 23 days ago

4

🪲 Bugs - Rando

Planned

Random Silence in Random Playhead Mode

First of all, great work on the latest update! The UI and overall workflow feel significantly improved! I noticed a bug with the new Random Playhead mode: roughly half of the triggered slices play silently instead of producing audio. The slices are triggered visually, but no sound is played. Also, it would be very useful to have manual slice trimming/editing after slices are generated using the auto-sensitivity detection workflow.

Den Unison 25 days ago

5

🪲 Bugs - Rando

In Progress

Sub folders of existing folders cannot be added as sample locations as before

I have around 300k samples and Rando does a much better job with indexing speed and noticing if the folder has changed in the beta. It made troubleshooting this easier. However I like to add certains subfolder as separate locations, due to the lack of a better way to search only sub folders of current locations. This used to work fine. Now if I add them AFTER adding the parent folder the sample count shows as zero for that sub folder location and its not just the number, no samples load for that location. I CAN RENAME the subfolder, then re-index the main folder it does work, but the main folder count is less the samples in the subfolder location, when it should also include them. So I guess the summary is nested sample location no long work?

unlabeledlife about 2 months ago

💡

Feature Request - Rando