Btw, when I last tried RG on a Pi, there was a precompiled version in the Raspbian repo. Good thing. Pis aren't real good at compiling stuff is a hurry.
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:26 AM steve conrad <steve.x.con...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have used Rosegarden on a Pi3. It worked about as much as any desktop > app can be said to work on one of those things. Didn't make it crash more > than anything else. As near as I can make out, once a Pi runs out of RAM it > just reboots and that happens pretty often using Raspbian. > > PIs are basically pretty useless though. The price point is a bit of a > hoax. By the time you gear them up with a case, a screen and such they cost > as much as a low end laptop while offering a fraction of the performance > and stability. > > If you want something small and quiet for rosegarden etc, try looking into > a micro PC like a Gigabyte brix. They've got a real computer inside. > > I've had a Pi for a couple years now and while I have found it technically > capable of performing a variety of tasks, I have yet to find any > application for which it is the right tool. So I don't use it for anything > at all. A solution in search of a problem. > > And of course they're offensively black boxed as you would expect from the > bastard child of a bunch of Broadcom engineers. Those things are not open > source friendly in any way. > > Imho, Pis are a waste of time and money but Rosegarden doesn't present any > special problems as far as they are concerned. > > I've heard some people like them more than I do. > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 5:28 PM David Tisdell <david.tisd...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I am leaning toward giving it a shot after the first of the year, >> especially after Will Godfrey's link to the "yoshimi pi" >> If I do, I'll post about success of lack thereof. I am thinking that I >> will most likely have to compile RG. There probably isn't a binary in the >> PI repository. Not that it's hard, just haven't done it in quite a while. >> >> Dave >> >> Dave >> >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:16 AM Ted Felix <t...@tedfelix.com> wrote: >> >>> On 12/8/20 7:43 PM, David Tisdell wrote: >>> > Has anyone tried Rosegarden and other linux audio apps on the newest >>> > Raspberry PI? >>> >>> I have not. However, it would be an interesting test case. >>> >>> On my laptop (an ancient 1st gen i3) I see about 1.7% CPU being used >>> by RG if I launch JACK after RG is up. If I launch RG after JACK is up, >>> I see about 15% CPU for RG plus about 4.3% CPU for JACK. So, if you >>> don't use the audio subsystem (audio tracks) in RG, you can likely >>> reduce the CPU usage considerably. That might make it a lot easier to >>> use RG on a Pi. >>> >>> Let us know how it goes if you decide to try this route. We might >>> need to add a "disable audio" to the preferences to allow for easier >>> performance tuning. We also might need to do some further performance >>> tuning in the code. I'm always up for that. >>> >>> Ted. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Rosegarden-user mailing list >>> Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to >>> unsubscribe >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rosegarden-user mailing list >> Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user >> >
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