Hi, all-

I am a fairly heavy user of Pd for doing audio in my research game. We are working on some new machines, and on several of them, any incoming voice is heavily distorted: you'll hear a second or two of clear audio, then samples repeating and just a lot of buzzing. This even happens if we just try to Test Audio and set it to monitor. All sounds work fine in Windows, and we can record outside of Pd without trouble. Audio created in Pd sounds fine; it's just when I get audio from the microphone it is distorted.

Has anyone had any experience with this that would help?

We are running Windows XP on Dell D830 with a SigmaTel sound card.

Thanks in advance!

All best,
-Zach

Tracked down an old message that suggested using ASIO when dealing with crummy SigmaTel audio boards.

Worked beautifully...we no longer sound like creepy aliens when we use the patch.

Best
-Z

Aliens prefer ring mod, anyway. Thanks for posting your solution.