Okay, I hate Vista; can live with XP, but. . .

Although I'd prefer to use a Linux version of Pure Data for my PD project, I'm using external hardware which currently has only Win32 drivers. So, being tied to Windows for this "patch", I have available an XP system, and one running Vista. PD is working well on XP. With Vista, however, audio playback of a simple pure tone results in a warbling sound--like a recursive sample that is spliced poorly. Very strange. Changing the delay just changes the rate of the glitch or warble sound.

Any idea why Vista does this, or what to do about it?

Well I got this one figured out--sort of. On my Vista system, I went to pd's audio settings and increased the delay time to about 125 ms. That gave me a clean tone. On our XP system we get a clean signal at about 60 ms.

Both are laptops. Eventually will be running our code on a desktop with a dedicated soundcard. I'm wondering what kind of best-case scenario delay time that I might expect to use on a system like that? Ballpark?

By the way, the db meter in testtone.pd doesn't work at all under our Vista setup.

Hi seedpress!

I have the same problemes with audio on Vista. Just by testing audio and MIDI on "media" menu.

I've set the delay to 125ms, but I've realised that every time I run PD I must set it again. Do you have the same problem? Do you know if there's a way to fix it?

Thanks for your help and time

Jordi

In the "Startup..." preferences menu item, click "Save All Settings" and it will take a snapshot of all your audio/midi settings.