diff --git a/include/flucoma/algorithms/public/NNDSVD.hpp b/include/flucoma/algorithms/public/NNDSVD.hpp
index 5385c941..be0c0e03 100644
--- a/include/flucoma/algorithms/public/NNDSVD.hpp
+++ b/include/flucoma/algorithms/public/NNDSVD.hpp
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
 #pragma once
 
 #include "../util/AlgorithmUtils.hpp"
+#include "../util/EigenRandom.hpp"
 #include "../util/FluidEigenMappings.hpp"
 #include "../../data/FluidIndex.hpp"
 #include "../../data/TensorTypes.hpp"
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ class NNDSVD
 
   index process(RealMatrixView X, RealMatrixView W, RealMatrixView H,
                 index minRank = 0, index maxRank = 200, double amount = 0.8,
-                index method = 0) // 0 - NMF-SVD, 1 NNDSVDar, 2 NNDSVDa 3 NNDSVD
+                index method = 0, index seed = -1) // 0 - NMF-SVD, 1 NNDSVDar, 2 NNDSVDa 3 NNDSVD
   {
     using namespace _impl;
     using namespace Eigen;
@@ -101,14 +102,16 @@ class NNDSVD
         WT.col(j) = u; // avoid scaling for NMF with normalized W
         HT.row(j) = lbd * v;
       }
-      WT = WT.array().max(epsilon);
-      HT = HT.array().max(epsilon);
+
+      double mean = XT.mean();
       if (method == 1)
       {
         auto Wrand =
-            MatrixXd::Random(WT.rows(), WT.cols()).array().abs() / 100.0;
+            EigenRandom<MatrixXd>(WT.rows(), WT.cols(), RandomSeed{seed},
+                                  Range{epsilon, mean * 0.001});
         auto Hrand =
-            MatrixXd::Random(HT.rows(), HT.cols()).array().abs() / 100.0;
+            EigenRandom<MatrixXd>(HT.rows(), HT.cols(), RandomSeed{seed},
+                                  Range{epsilon, mean * 0.001});
         WT = (WT.array() < epsilon).select(Wrand, WT);
         HT = (HT.array() < epsilon).select(Hrand, HT);
       }
diff --git a/include/flucoma/clients/nrt/NMFSeedClient.hpp b/include/flucoma/clients/nrt/NMFSeedClient.hpp
index 36be7abe..d1c72a63 100644
--- a/include/flucoma/clients/nrt/NMFSeedClient.hpp
+++ b/include/flucoma/clients/nrt/NMFSeedClient.hpp
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ enum NMFSeedParamIndex {
   kMaxRank,
   kCoverage,
   kMethod,
+  kRandomSeed,
   kFFT
 };
 
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ constexpr auto NMFSeedParams =
                      FloatParam("coverage", "Coverage", 0.5, Min(0), Max(1)),
                      EnumParam("method", "Initialization Method", 0, "NMF-SVD",
                                "NNDSVDar", "NNDSVDa", "NNDSVD"),
+                     LongParam("seed", "Random Seed", -1),
                      FFTParam("fftSettings", "FFT Settings", 1024, -1, -1));
 
 class NMFSeedClient : public FluidBaseClient, public OfflineIn, public OfflineOut
@@ -100,9 +102,9 @@ class NMFSeedClient : public FluidBaseClient, public OfflineIn, public OfflineOu
 
     auto nndsvd = algorithm::NNDSVD();
 
-    index rank = nndsvd.process(magnitude, outputFilters, outputEnvelopes,
-                                get<kMinRank>(), get<kMaxRank>(),
-                                get<kCoverage>(), get<kMethod>());
+    index rank = nndsvd.process(
+        magnitude, outputFilters, outputEnvelopes, get<kMinRank>(),
+        get<kMaxRank>(), get<kCoverage>(), get<kMethod>(), get<kRandomSeed>());
 
     auto   filters = BufferAdaptor::Access{get<kFilters>().get()};
     Result resizeResult =
diff --git a/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
index 80c3d9e0..2ad0f441 100644
--- a/tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ target_link_libraries(TestEnvelopeGate PRIVATE TestSignals)
 target_link_libraries(TestTransientSlice PRIVATE TestSignals)
 
 add_test_executable(TestEigenRandom algorithms/util/TestEigenRandom.cpp)
+add_test_executable(TestNNDSVD algorithms/public/TestNNDSVD.cpp)
 add_test_executable(TestRTPGHI algorithms/util/TestRTPGHI.cpp)
 
 include(CTest)
@@ -158,6 +159,7 @@ catch_discover_tests(TestBufferedProcess WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"
 catch_discover_tests(TestMLP WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}")
 catch_discover_tests(TestKMeans WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
 catch_discover_tests(TestEigenRandom WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
+catch_discover_tests(TestNNDSVD WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
 catch_discover_tests(TestNMF WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
 catch_discover_tests(TestRTPGHI WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}")
 catch_discover_tests(TestUMAP WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}")
diff --git a/tests/algorithms/public/TestNNDSVD.cpp b/tests/algorithms/public/TestNNDSVD.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..90d63c52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/algorithms/public/TestNNDSVD.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#define CATCH_CONFIG_MAIN
+#include <flucoma/algorithms/public/NNDSVD.hpp>
+#include <flucoma/data/FluidTensor.hpp>
+#include <catch2/catch_all.hpp>
+#include <vector> 
+
+TEST_CASE("NNDSVD Mode 1 is repeatable with manually set random seed"){
+
+using Tensor = fluid::FluidTensor<double,2>; 
+using fluid::algorithm::NNDSVD; 
+
+// To test the effect of randomness in NNDSVD mode 1, there must be 0s in the input
+Tensor input = {{0,0,0},{0,0,0},{0,0,0}}; 
+
+std::vector Ws(3, Tensor(3,3)); 
+std::vector Hs(3, Tensor(3,3)); 
+
+NNDSVD algo;
+
+algo.process(input,Ws[0],Hs[0],2,2,0.8,1, 42); 
+algo.process(input,Ws[1],Hs[1],2,2,0.8,1, 42); 
+algo.process(input,Ws[2],Hs[2],2,2,0.8,1, 4672);
+
+using Catch::Matchers::RangeEquals; 
+
+REQUIRE_THAT(Ws[1],RangeEquals(Ws[0])); 
+REQUIRE_THAT(Ws[1],!RangeEquals(Ws[2])); 
+REQUIRE_THAT(Hs[1],RangeEquals(Hs[0])); 
+REQUIRE_THAT(Hs[1],!RangeEquals(Hs[2])); 
+}
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