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. --p