[linux-audio-user] linuxsampler distortion?

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:40:12PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 15:01 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've just tried out linuxsampler (well, qsampler really) for the
> > first time, with some samples from Worra's Place.
> > Everything seems to work but the sound is very distorted
> > with every gig I've tried. Ugly nonlinear distortion, almost like
> > a ring modulator.  Not at all subtle.  It happens even if I play
> > a single note at low velocity.  Doesn't sound like xrun choppiness,
> > and no other apps on this box make similar sounds.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm using ALSA output, no Jack.
> 
> i'd wager 90% chance its a bug in linuxsampler. i would keep running
> into this many times whenever i wrote ALSA i/o code until i wrote JACK.
> even early versions of JACK would do it too. once JACK was fixed, i
> never wrote such code again. 

Hmmm, but sometimes I get it under JACK too, with realtime priority
and all... will try again later.

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Paul Winkler
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