[PD] 1000% distortion in pd in linux

cdr ix at replic.net
Mon Feb 27 02:01:11 CET 2006


On Sun Feb 26, 2006 at 07:04:25PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, hard off wrote:
> 
> > btw...ubuntu breezy, tascam us-122 soundcard, running pd with alsa
> 
> in the top right panel, there's a speaker icon. right click on it and
> select "Open Volume Control". The volume of your soundcard most likely
> "goes up to 11" just like in Spinal Tap. Try setting it at about 85% and
> maybe it'll be like what is called 100% on some other cards. I've had a
> similar problem with my laptop. there might be several volume controls 
> chained together. you may have to reduce several of them. e.g. on my 
> laptop i had Master + PCM + the analog wheel next to the earphone jack.
> 
> or is it different using your other programs?... do those using the 
> OSS interface behave differently from those using the ALSA interface?
 
the poster is on PPC linux. i had similar issues - it seems to be some sort of endianness issue with the output samples. connecting PD to JACK, then JAck to the device tends to solve the issue..

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