Only Fluidsynth with Pi Zero

[crisp64]

Hello would it be possible to make a special Pi Zero Version which only includes the Fluidsynth?

Thanks,

Crisp

[dwhinham]

Hi there,

I have thought about this before; it would be possible, but would take some effort to un-do all the work that was done to leverage the extra CPU cores in Pi 2 and above.

I'm not really in any hurry to try this as the Zero has no built-in audio and the CPU is pretty weak, so polyphony may be limited with certain SoundFonts; even the Pi 2 needs overclocking so that it doesn't suffer underruns with FluidSynth. Zero isn't a very attractive platform for this use case.

[crisp64]

Hi Dale, thanks for your answer, I would really like a Baremetal Fluidsynth on Pi 0 with i2s DAC and fixed Samplerate without samplerate conversion migth help a bit. Maybe 44,1 kHz as the EMU8000 Chip uses 😉 and for the Pi0 there could also be the Buttons/Display be skipped. Also a fixed Soundfont would be ok. I found this Project but it uses a fullblown Linux as support https://lucidbeaming.com/blog/running-fluidsynth-on-a-raspberry-pi-zero-w/ So an Idea for the Pi0 could be to make a mini PCB as Wavetable Board 😀 I would really like this an maybe I can help a bit, I can code 6502 😉 a bit ARM Assembler and started with some Arduino Things. Greets Crisp

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Am 07.06.2021 um 21:49 schrieb Dale Whinham ***@***.***>:  Hi there, I have thought about this before; it would be possible, but would take some effort to un-do all the work that was done to leverage the extra CPU cores in Pi 2 and above. I'm not really in any hurry to try this as the Zero has no built-in audio and the CPU is pretty weak, so polyphony may be limited with certain SoundFonts; even the Pi 2 needs overclocking so that it doesn't suffer underruns with FluidSynth. Zero isn't a very attractive platform for this use case. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.