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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]> 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.
>>
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