[LAU] raspi as midi synth

[Milan Lazecky]

Thank you Simon for positive reaction,
I start to look forward to prepare such synthesizer, will think about HDMI
audio, but at this moment I will be just happy with RPi stereo line-out.
Kind regards

Milan


2014-02-24 0:03 GMT+01:00 Simon Wise <simonzwise at gmail.com>:

> On 24/02/14 05:09, Milan Lazecky wrote:
>
>> hi folks,
>> i have a yamaha wx5 (midi saxophone). i was thinking to use my midi2usb
>> cable to plug into raspberry pi which would use some fluidsynth soundfonts
>> to synthesize music realtime.
>> do you know about such project existing, or should i work on it from
>> beginning? (i.e. find some rt kernel, install sw, rearrange system for no
>> gui etc...)
>> do you think raspberry can handle it well?
>>
>
> USB is probably your biggest issue here, provided the raspberry can handle
> the synthesis you want to do, you can help by assigning only a minimum of
> memory to the GPU. No need to do any other rearranging of the system, with
> raspbian it starts out headless (with X installed if you want to launch it)
> and capable of quite low latencies. It has a basic minimum of processes
> running and ready to add what you want from the extensive repository with
> apt-get. The settings to work headless are mostly the default. These are
> great advantages in terms of time required to get it running.
>
> USB implementation is poor and only some audio cards work, plus something
> else on USB like a midi input or networking will make it trickier. In your
> case, needing only stereo out, it is certainly easier.
>
> Seriously consider an audio solution that can use HDMI audio out.
>
>
> Simon
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