[PD] audio problem on OSX with a particular mixer

[rene beekman]

Derek,

Well, that's the thing; with any other piece of external hardware I'm having no problems what so ever, just with this one damn mixer....
Voodoo does sound like an option :D

Rene



On Mar 18, 2010, at 23:35, Derek Holzer wrote:

> Hi Rene,
> 
> I think you can safely factor the mixer out of the equation, unless you believe in voodoo ;-)
> 
> Pd doesn't play well with Coreaudio or Portaudio at all, so using JACK is the best workaround for that. Lots of archive discussion on this topic, but no solutions...
> 
> Best,
> Derek
> 
> On 3/18/10 8:53 PM, rene beekman wrote:
>> i'm running into a strange problem with a particular mixer, a behringer dx626. I've got the headphones/lineout of my intel macbook (running os 10.6.2) connected to one of the line-ins on the mixer.
>> 
>> audio playback through the mixer works fine from itunes or from the finder.
>> 
>> when i switch to pd, however, audio keeps switching on and off at a rate of about 2 or 3 times a second.
>> 
>> i've tried fiddling with the Pd settings to solve this, but have not been able to find a solution so far.
>> 
>> i'm using portaudio, sampling rate 44100, delay 50ms, no callbacks, input and output devices are set to built-in mic&  output.
>> 
>> changing any of these settings does not make any difference.
>> 
>> tonight i installed jack and this did solve the problem.
>> while i'm glad i've found a solution, i hate not understanding why it works....
>> anyone any suggestions or pointers? :)
> 
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