diggin into rabserry pi...

[blakelock]

just got the rasberry pi and am looking for some simple audio software to play with. i'm not doing hardcore recording (several threads exist on recording in a linux environment) but just want something to make simple beats and chord progressions to play along with (maybe something like band in a box...).

i've found
LMMS (seems like the right ticket)
rosegarden (probably a bit comlex and maybe the pi can't handle the processing requirements)
ardour (again, maybe too heavy for the pi to handle...not sure though)

any other ideas? i'm particularly wondering how the pi will handle the processing requirements of some of these

 

[seamonkey]

Sounds like a lot of fun. I thought I had seen some guitar pedals with a raspberry pi for a brain.
Linux audio has good page on the RPi
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Keep going, we need more options and platforms. It doesn't all need to be big money.

 

[bnolsen]

Sadly getting an rpi from bare to usable is kind of annoying. Good power supply and case are needed here. Hopefully you're jamming an rpi2 which will give you a ton more overhead on the cpu side. If you have some old laptop sitting around that might be a better bet for crunching this stuff.
I'm not hating on the rpi I had one for a short while on release then sold it when I realized it wasn't going to win any speed awards. I haven't tried the rpi2 yet. Hacking a cheap chromebox is way more interesting to me, a celeron 2955u utterly destroys the rpi for cpu, IO, graphics, you name it, and really isn't tons more expensive when you start racking up all the stuff you need to get the rpi going.