Duh,<br><br>I think I was just unlucky and got a duff card - in Window$ it plays back sound files v-e-r-y slowly, a1 1/10th the sample rate, with some grotesque clock sound!<br><br>It's being replaced as soon as I ship it back, so I'll report back when the replacement arrives.<br><br>I've tried a 24bit interface with PD before though - a Soundblaster USB. It just made loud clicking noises. We'll see what the Indigo gives me.<br><br>Best,<br>Ed<br><br><b><i>Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br>> Does anyone know how to get PD working with a 24bit soundcard under <br>> Linux?<br><br>What's your sound API? OSS? ALSA? JACK? Have you tried any others?<br><br>> but I get a decimated mess using PD - sounds like a 24bit DAC playing <br>> back a 16bit word...<br><br>Does that mean just lower quality or does it mean playing some
<br>seemingly-garbage sounds at very high volume and very high pitch? The very <br>high pitches would be related to 1/3 of the sample rate, but in the case <br>of 96 kHz that's clearly ultrasounds, and with 48 kHz that's on the limit <br>of ultrasounds. Most likely you would instead hear moiré between that <br>pattern and lower-pitched patterns. I've never really heard 16/24 bit <br>misinterpretation so I'm guessing.<br><br>Do you get any console messages and/or terminal messages about number of <br>bits?<br><br> _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ...<br>| Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal QC Canada</blockquote><br><BR><BR>Lone Shark "Aviation" out now on http://www.pyramidtransmissions.com<br>http://www.myspace.com/sharktracks<p> 
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