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Hey all

I'm building a patch that listens to audio input for a user defined amount of time and records the "db" as a value (0-100). 

The audio input/microphone is "opened' with a gate actor each time and the max value is fed to a separate Hold Value actor - each time the gate is opened a new hold value is used. The gate is then closed, so the max volume over a user defined period of time is recorded.

In the current patch I've got 3 separate Hold Value actors, but this could go up to 10 or more. There will be a different external trigger (most likely an OSC signal) for each gate into hold value.

Is there an actor/setup that can then rank those values highest to lowest? Ideally I want the user to be able to see the highest value and which opened gate that corresponds to quickly - that value might then get fed elsewhere and presented as a 'winner'.

Hope that makes sense, any thoughts very welcome!

Simon

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/8440/answered-ranking-values-qRSS for NodeThu, 13 Aug 2026 09:37:22 GMTTue, 06 Jun 2023 07:28:01 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to [ANSWERED] Ranking values Q on Wed, 07 Jun 2023 17:45:43 GMT]]>@simon100

As Woland mentioned, you can accomplish this in Javascript.
You likely want to build a 2D array (https://www.w3schools.com/js/j...) such that the Array is made of short arrays that contain the Value & the Position.. So you might have [50.33,2] where 50.33 is the max volume, and 2 the position it is in.

So your array may look like this (if it has 5 positions) [[50.33,1],[20,2],[10,3],[15,4],[30,5]]

You could then use the Array Sort feature on this array (https://www.w3schools.com/js/j...) to sort by the Volume level (first value in each sub-array).

This could give you this array: [[50.33,1],[30,5],[20,2],[15,4],[10,3]]

See how the value levels are now in descending order: 50.33, 30, 20, 15, 10

In this way, you can determine that the highest value came from output position 1, and the second highest volume came from output position 5

Hopefully that gets you started.

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/51650https://community.troikatronix.com/post/51650Wed, 07 Jun 2023 17:45:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [ANSWERED] Ranking values Q on Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:59:20 GMT]]>@simon100

JavaScript would be your best bet

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