#62

Sorry I’m advance forward resurrecting this thread but I’ve been fooling around with Reaper on a pi4 and I have to say I’m pretty impressed. I’ve been sequencing MIDI, tracking and layering audio, and adding plugins with no problems other than the occasional stutter but it’s always when editing, not while recording. Using a decade old fast track pro with no issues. Just super impressed in general!

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#63

I’m quite interested in the prospects of the pi4 running a 64bit OS with the new RAM options in seeing just how ably it can handle a DAW like Bitwig or even VCV Rack. It would be pretty neat to be able to run simple VCV patches headless.

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#64

I can say I was super impressed with how the pi4 4gb was running Reaper in 32bit. Honestly the round trip latency monitored through Reaper was performing better than my i7-3770k + Saffire 40 I’m still rolling with at home, it just sounded worse through that fast track pro. I’ve just always used the latency free monitoring on the interface, this just kind of blew me away. Of course this was all simple tracking, no buses on buses like in my typical Pro Tools session, but I was still impressed.

#65

new pi user here, i am returning to unix after awhile but an unfamiliar with the modern OS builds. i am running a 3B+ which i bought over another 4 because i thought it probable i would get a Shield and cannibalize this system for its Pi. but in the meantime i want to run VCV and Orca on it and successfully installed Raspian last night and Orca is running great. VCV, when i try to double click the icon it seems to run but goes nowhere, the program never comes up. execute from command line errors out. i should prob find the VCV forum but y’all are so niiiice here…

also wondering about audio interfaces. i have used my maudio 2x2 with my Fates with no issues, and a Roland inline midi interface is working, is there some reason I would prefer to use a dedicated Pi sound card like the Pisound? do i gain anything beyond increased portability or the ability to go headless?

#66

You’ve got it right: Functionally, you’ll be able to do exactly the same things with an audio interface as you can with Pisound or other audio hats.

I use Pisound for my live set up (remembering when I could play out live…). In the studio I’ll use a USB audio interface if I need more channels.

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#67

I’ve noticed quite a bit of latency[1] using a cheap sabrent usb soundcard with my raspberry pi. Is that likely to be much better for another USB audio interface like an maudio 2x2? I’d been considering a hifiberry or pisound card to try and solve this issue.

[1] Buffer sizes any less than 512 in jackd don’t seem to work.

#68

I wouldn’t be looking for performance with that sound card. I doubt there’s good low latency stuff for sort of sound card built into Linux. I had decent results with M-Audio Fast Track Pro which is a decade old at this point.

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#69

pisound (as does the norns etc) has a more direct connection to the system via i2s, so it doesn’t have an extra usb layer.

a modern usb soundcard should be fine, however.

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#70

I’ve had issues with sabrenet USB delaying both audio and midi signals. So, I am cautious about using their gear in general.

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