[PD] audio problem on OSX with a particular mixer

[Derek Holzer]

then the answer is simple. sacrifice a chicken over the mixer. you saw 
the chapter in the manual about blood offerings, didn't you?

d.

On 3/19/10 12:03 AM, rene beekman wrote:
> [osc~ 220] to an [adc~], nothing more than that
> even just the osc~ help patch does the trick
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> On Mar 18, 2010, at 23:58, Derek Holzer wrote:
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>> What is your patch doing then? Any DC offset or similar which could freak the mixer out? Did you try it with just the test tone, or a simple [osc~ 220]?
>>
>> D.
>>
>> On 3/18/10 10:54 PM, rene beekman wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
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>>> On Mar 18, 2010, at 23:35, Derek Holzer wrote:
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>>>> 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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