Hello there. I'm a student in the UCLA Design department and am trying to incorporate voice and tonal input to a real-time 3D environment and am having some trouble getting PD to operate under NT.

I have installed PD .24 on a machine with a Soundblaster AWE64 card and have gotten MIDI to work just fine, but when I start PD I get a message that says "error: dacs died: switching to another timing device" I have looked at the device list but I don't understand how to alter settings, etc.

Also, I am wondering if anyone has experience using PD with a Soundblaster LIVE card: PD crashed on me everytime when I installed one but I wonder if there are config modifications that can be made to PD or the SB drivers to avoid this. I am not a programmer, and I only understand the wonderful world of NT to a limited degree, but I will try anything you can think up.

Thanks! damon seeley