Thanks for the update on the Pi. I have read that the Pi 4 is a significant improvement over the Pi3. Come across a few people running them headless as a qsynth sound module Will Godfrey’s implementation with Yoshimi looks interesting. I wish Yoshimi’s piano sounds weren’t so awful. I like Yoshimi except for the piano but I use piano a lot in my work and so it can’t be my only sound tool
Dave On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 2:28 PM steve conrad <steve.x.con...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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