I don't know why it's working. I just hope the next update won't break that!

So "-sounddev 2" should work for my card showing up as card 1 ? Incidentally, there are only two pages that I know of on the web explaining how to use start-up flags in the command line (http://en.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/getting-started/starting/ and http://puredata.info/docs/faq/commandline).  None of them mention "-soundev". Is this a new flag ?
Unless there's a better place on the web to learn about start-up flags, i think it would be a good idea to provide more details on the community website. I always find it frustrating when i have to spend a lot of time figuring out how to use a command line program just because i don't know the syntax of the arguments.

Cheers,

Pierre.

2013/1/22 Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu>
That's great (and surprising) news... I wonder why you're getting a better
ride from teh E-MU box than I am from the iMic but it sounds as if I should
be digging up one like yours to try.

I think you can just invoke 'pd -sounddev 2' to select the USB device.

cheers
Miller

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 09:23:51PM +0100, Pierre Massat wrote:
> Dear list, dear Miller,
>
> I tried Pd on a fresh Raspbian install today. I removed pulseaudio as you
> suggested. I installed Pd from the Raspbian repos (not your version).
> I tried it with my USB E-MU 0404 soundcard. It worked right away. No need
> to slow down the USB.
> I tried with a latency in Pd of 10 ms, in X, connected to the internet, and
> there was very little dropouts.
> This is so promising it's scary.
>
> Now i have one very frustrating problem : i don't know how to choose my
> soundcard from the command line when starting Pd...
> It shows up as Card 1, device 0 when i do "aplay -l", but i don't know how
> to use this information.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Pierre.

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