Is it possible to sort the output values of Ugen arrays by output value?

[prko]

Thank you for your kind explanation! I had the need to sort the array of Ugen by there output values while answering a question in the following post:

Free an array of Envs, based on longest release time

This line should be relTimes.sort{arg a, b; a < b}; to sort the envelope times according to the following line: The following might be a possible way to do this with a SynthDef (but I think there should be a better way than my suggestion): ( SynthDef(\randSynth, { |out=0| var num, freqs, relTimes, envs, sig; num = 12; freqs = { Rand(31, 63).poll(0).midicps } * (1.. num); relTimes = num.collect { |i| Rand(1, 5.0 * (i + 1) / num) }; envs = Env.perc(0.01, relTimes).kr / (1.. num); FreeSe…

The following line contains array of Ugens:

relTimes = num.collect { |i| Rand(1, 5.0 * (i + 1) / num) }

To get a sorted result, I could do something like this:

relTimes = (num..1).collect { |i| Rand(5.4 - (i / num), 4.6) * i / num + 0.5}.poll(0);

However, as you pointed out, it is difficult to find a real sort using the native sc libraries.

@jordan

You should be able to sort control rate signals by writing them into a buffer, then sorting that.

I think this way could be theoretically possible, but not within a SynthDef…