hello world,
I am pretty new to all this pd-ism but willing to learn
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PROBLEM: My outputs coming from pd are way to loud.

On my computer runs a M-Audio Delta 1010 and I link it to an oldschool Yamaha02r over a digital Adat link. It seems that the audio test is ok since the sine does not distort even at 0dB but playing a normalized sample leads to a heavy distortion even at looooow level settings. I can easily see that the inputs of the 02r are overdriven.

Any idea how I can lower the outputs of pd in the preferences or something so i can listen to other peoples patches w1thout lowering the level every time before going to dac~ ?

Thanks
Novo

if the test patch seems to be fine, then it's likely somewhere in your problem patch that you are multiplying the signal. look for any [*~] objects and make sure that you understand why they are in the chain.

otherwise you can always lower the gain by multiplying by a 0.0000.e.t.c. or dividing by a large number. i.e. [*~ 0.001] / [/~ 100] typically among pd patches, we use [*~] even when lowering gain. I think this is because multiplication is actually less CPU expensive than dividing.

hello

thank you for the reply. I will study the patch further.
I did put a [*~ 0.006] before [dac~ ] already but I was wondering why this was nessecery. Greetings
Novo