[PD] dac~'s signal too loud?

[Nick Morrison]

Hi,

Please forgive me if this is a commonly answered question, but I'm new and
finding my feet :-)

If I create a patch with:

  osc~ 440  ---->  *~ 0.05  ---->  dac~

just the same as 01.PART1.sinewave.pd in the documentation, I get a very
distorted output (as I do when I open 01.PART1.sinewave.pd.)

If I reduce the *~ figure to anywhere below 0.001, I seem to get an almost
artifact-free signal.  However, anything above that results in a highly
distorted signal.

testtone.pd is painful to the ear :-)  Just too much volume, somewhere
along the line.

Is there an overall volume control somewhere that I haven't tweaked or
found yet?

I'm running pd on FreeBSD 4.8, and it came out of the ports.  It's version
0.35.23.  I'm running it on a tiny Sony Vaio laptop, which is said to have
a Yamaha DS-1E (YMF754) -based sound device.

Has anyone else had (or solved!) this particular issue?


Nick

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