livio

I got a weird digital distortion and clips, using a mic plugged in an m-audio firewire 410, using soundflower as driver on a G5 quad.

m-audio driver are update. without passing thru soundflower i got no distortion.

I tried changing buffers size, the problem fixes and come back in a couple of second.

Hello list,
I got a weird digital distortion and clips, using a mic plugged in an m-audio firewire 410, using soundflower as driver on a G5 quad.
m-audio driver are update. without passing thru soundflower i got no distortion.
I tried changing buffers size, the problem fixes and come back in a couple of second.
Same config on a macbook pro works..
Any hint on causes or solutions?
Thank you in advance.
Best,
Livio


m-audio-410-and-soundflower-problem

Quote: livio wrote on Sat, 09 June 2007 17:16

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> I got a weird digital distortion and clips, using a mic plugged in an m-audio firewire 410, using soundflower as driver on a G5 quad.

> m-audio driver are update. without passing thru soundflower i got no distortion.

> I tried changing buffers size, the problem fixes and come back in a couple of second.

I don't understand how you route your mic input into max if your sound driver in max is set to soundflower. Or do you use soundflower with an aggregate device and select the aggregate device in max?

I have had the problems you describe using soundflower with an aggregate device, although not within seconds but more in like 10 minutes. Only on G5 (quad), on our Intel machines it works fine. No solution up till now..

Quote: livio wrote on Sat, 09 June 2007 17:16
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> Hello list,
> I got a weird digital distortion and clips, using a mic plugged in an m-audio firewire 410, using soundflower as driver on a G5 quad.
> m-audio driver are update. without passing thru soundflower i got no distortion.
> I tried changing buffers size, the problem fixes and come back in a couple of second.
> Same config on a macbook pro works..
> Any hint on causes or solutions?
> Thank you in advance.
> Best,
> Livio
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I was glad to see that even using Soundflower as driver in Max, this still let you choose your input device.

Mh, not that good to hear that the problem really exists "just" on G5 quad, and that there's no solution appeareantly. Older m-audio drivers, Soundflower betas, any alternatives?

There might be another way to route the whole thing, that basically is:

Mic in M-audio 410, Analysis/Recording/Playing in Max, Routing 3 channels to Ableton Live, doing stuff as vocoding, Routing back 6 channels in Max, Spatialize and Output 6 Channels on M-Audio 410.

That makes 15 channels, holy soundflower.

I tried with rewire as Max DSP driver but this does not allow to have a different input, nor route the output to M-audio.

But probably I'm seeing some routing possibilities..

Any hint to solve the problem or find an alternative?

There might be another way to route the whole thing, that basically is:
Mic in M-audio 410, Analysis/Recording/Playing in Max, Routing 3 channels to Ableton Live, doing stuff as vocoding, Routing back 6 channels in Max, Spatialize and Output 6 Channels on M-Audio 410.
That makes 15 channels, holy soundflower.

But probably I'm seeing some routing possibilities..
Any hint to solve the problem or find an alternative?

that is Utilities -> Audio MIDI setup -> menu: Audio -> Open aggregate device setup.

M-audio 410 and soundflower problem