Hello, one and all!

This is my first post on the pure data forum, and I wish it was under better circumstances, but what can you do...

Ever since I installed Pure Data on my computer, I have not been able to get a decent sound quality from the program. I've reinstalled audio drivers and such, yet I still am not able to get a good quality tone. Even creating a simple A-440 oscillator tone doesn't work: the sound I get back seems to be lagging. The weird thing is, this distortion only seems to happen with pure data. Here's a sample of what I hear out of the program:

Sorry for the poor image quality, I didn't have the proper capture settings in place. If anyone out there would know of a solution to this problem, I'd appreciate hearing about it!

Thanks,
Aaron H.

oh dear.

the first thing I would try to do is increase the latency (delay) number in audio settings.

if PD is the only application running (and thus the only thing accessing your audio drivers) does it still happen?

Hello Tubafatness,

for my experience PureData is never conditioning audio quality. Sound quality is determinated for soundcard device. What kind of soundcard are you using?

Maybe it can be of your interest... I has a problem in past with a cheap Realtek audio soundcard used in a laptop with PureData. When audio inputs and audio outs was active in the Audio Settings Menu Puredata the playback sound becomes "distortioned" because inputs and outputs enter in a kind of "feedback". If this is you are experiencing try to turn off audio inputs and check again audio quality.

I hope other PureData experts can help you.