[PD] Basic question about Mac Os X

Miller Puckette mpuckett at imusic1.ucsd.edu
Thu Jan 24 02:01:00 CET 2008


Yeah.  Both places, then.  I use that menu item more often than any
other (not including accelerators) so I don't think it would be too
much of a bloater.

cheers
M

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:16:14PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> Any regular Mac user will look in the Pd->Prefernces for the  
> preferences, so you'll have people complaining about that.  I knew it  
> always drove me nuts, first I'd go to the normal prefs location, then  
> remember, "oh yeah, it's in the media menu".
> 
> You can't please all the people all the time...
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> >Hmm, are people having trouble finding the audio and midi settings  
> >hidden away
> >in "prefernces" on Apples?  Maybe I should move it back where it  
> >"belongs"
> >under "media", or else include it both places.
> >
> >(I doubt that's Marco's problem, but I always have trouble finding  
> >it myself :)
> >
> >M
> >
> >On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:26:10PM +0100, Jack wrote:
> >>I think it's in :
> >>Applications>Utilities>Audio and Midi config
> >>++
> >>
> >>Jack
> >>
> >>
> >>Le 23 janv. 08 ? 16:21, marco trevisani a ?crit :
> >>
> >>>
> >>>After 13 years working with Linux i have now to deal with a Mac (for
> >>>instance an iMac running 10.4.11 and pd 0.39-extended)
> >>>and all seems new....
> >>>
> >>>the basic question then... while i wait for a USB card (btw any
> >>>recommendation is very welcome) i was trying making
> >>>some test with PD patches but when i connect and use  the line-in
> >>>built-in in the machine i have troubles getting any recognizable
> >>>sound to the dac~.  It looks like the problem is with the adc~ since
> >>>osc~ to dac~ produce the sound i would expect to hear.
> >>>I put to zero the built in microphone (is there any way to mute it
> >>>completely??), and played with line in levels but nothing acceptable
> >>>is coming out.
> >>>
> >>>Just to clarify, the problem seems related directly with PD, because
> >>>other applications that use line in they reproduce the sound at a
> >>>decent quality.
> >>>
> >>>Any hint would be greatly appreciated...Sorry for downgrading the
> >>>level of the discussion on this list... :-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Thank you,
> >>>
> >>>	ciao,
> >>>	marco trevisani
> >>>
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