Hey Guys,

I'm having some trouble with volume control. I keep getting a really nasty crackling noise. I'm thinking it's a Windows setting since I used Vista 32-bit before and didn't hear this problem, but switched to 7 32-bit and now it's here. I've attached a .wav of how it sounds; I just put in an osc~ and used an audio multiplier, changing the cold inlet between 0 and 1.

Let me know what you think,

• Grant

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/volproblem1.wav

that is so weird.

does it happen all the time or only when changing the multiplier?

Only when changing the multiplier value. I used a line object to change the value, for physical modeling, when I noticed it. That recording though I just grabbed a slider which goes from 0 to 1, then changed the values. It seems to only do it when there is too big of a jump in value.

I checked latency timing but it didn't help.

The output of sliders are messages, and so are not continuous or smooth. This results in sudden jumps of amplitude, which causes clicking. You need to convert them to audio and smooth them out with something like [line~].

[hslider]
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[$1 10(
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[line~]

Or are you already doing this? I can't imagine why that is a problem with one OS and not the other.

awesome, that solved it! I didn't realize that the slider should be made into an audio signal. Thanks!

• Grant