Hi,

Oded Ben-Tal <oded@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

> I'm encountering some strange behaviour. I'm running PD on linux (rh9
> planetcCRMA) using maudio quattro sound card. It worked fine yesterday,
> but today I get amplitude overload and some errors. The test audio is
> distorted and I had to reduce the amplidute by factor of 10 in a patch I
> was working on to get acceptable levels.
> I'm using jack:
> jackstart -d alsa -d hw:1,0 -r 44100
> which complains (semi periodically):
> *** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least {8.732-30} msecs

I have no idea why you suddenly get this overloads, but you should
*never* run Jack over a USB soundcard with a samplerate not divisible
by 1000. So try with 48000 instead of 44100 Hz.

ciao
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