If you would have lowered the volume on the synth, you probably would have gotten a better signal as a result. Greg On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 03:08:38PM -0800, Janina Sajka wrote: > Hi, Chuck: > > I haven't tried patching back to the sound card, but I have patched into > a mixer. I hated it, and I gave up on it. There was a nasty pop every > time the Doubletalk speech started up, and every time it stopped. Also, > the signal was quite noisy. These are not things we hear from the > speaker that ships with the Doubletalk internal, or what we hear from > the external units themselves. But, it seems Doubletalk doesn't do well > with an upgraded sound system as output. Tis a shame, and I hope someone > has some good ideas about it. >