Could be system permissions for reading the microphone. Try going to the Security panel and enable Microphone access for Pd.

Normally, it should show the request dialog automatically, but sometimes it doesn't, maybe due to running different versions of Pd on the same system? I'm not sure off the top of my head.

On Nov 1, 2020, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 16:36:13 -0400
From: Ricky Graham <rickygrahammusic@gmail.com>
To: pd-list@lists.iem.at
Subject: [PD] error opening audio: Internal PortAudio error
Message-ID: <488FA85A-79FB-4577-881A-852EB7C61045@gmail.com>
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Hi,

When I switch on DSP using Pd-0.51 (stable build) on macOS Catalina 10.15.7, I get the following error:
error opening audio: Internal PortAudio error

Any ideas how to resolve this issue?

Best,

Ricky

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