Thanks for the reply. I'm hoping you'll help me clarify a few things.

1. " this is how i start pd" - does this mean selecting Startup from

the File menu and typing "-nosleep -rt -audiobuf 64 -jack" in the Startup Flags field? Do I do this after the flags that are already there?

yes, using the pg gui (file - startup, apply, save) or editing defaults.pdsettings (in /usr/local/lib/pd) or .pdsettings in your home folder. this is on linux, i don't know how windows works.

2. "play with priority in Linux" - I have no idea how to play with

anything in Linux. I search the English pd-list for limits.conf, and found 1 thread, which did not seem to have the information I need. Can you please tell me what specifically I need to do with limits.conf? (And where is it located?)

oups, my bad - it's located in /etc/security/limits.conf add thoses lines: @audio - nice -10 @audio - rtprio 99 @audio - memlock unlimited

then yu should add yourself to the audio group. restart your computer.

3. I'm trying to use qjackctl. I enter Setup, and choose freebob as

the driver. But I'm not sure how my firewire card is designated (plughw:0?). Or if it's even recognized by the OS.

this is a little bit more complicated. i suggest you look on google for post on this subject (for your audio card). you can use gscanbus to see if you soundcard if detected. but yes, basically in setup you checked Realtime, choose Freebob, interface default, frames / period (start with a big latency = 1024).

Again, thanks for the reply. Linux is a little over my head, and I desperately want this to work!

good luck, from time to time i am on #dataflow (irc.freenode.net). pat