[PD] dac~'s signal too loud?

Hi,

Please forgive me if this is a commonly answered question, but I'm new and finding my feet :-)

If I create a patch with:

osc~ 440 ----> *~ 0.05 ----> dac~

just the same as 01.PART1.sinewave.pd in the documentation, I get a very distorted output (as I do when I open 01.PART1.sinewave.pd.)

If I reduce the *~ figure to anywhere below 0.001, I seem to get an almost artifact-free signal. However, anything above that results in a highly distorted signal.

testtone.pd is painful to the ear :-) Just too much volume, somewhere along the line.

Is there an overall volume control somewhere that I haven't tweaked or found yet?

I'm running pd on FreeBSD 4.8, and it came out of the ports. It's version 0.35.23. I'm running it on a tiny Sony Vaio laptop, which is said to have a Yamaha DS-1E (YMF754) -based sound device.

Has anyone else had (or solved!) this particular issue?

Nick