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JohnDoe

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  1. About ten years ago, the Keyboard forum with the most activity was Harmony Central "Keys Synths and Samplers". I remember posting in a thread that if Behringer could build analog mixers with dozens of pots, switches, etc, for a couple hundred dollars, they could clone a Minimoog for under $500. If I recall, my post didn't get a lot of positive responses.

     

    As you know, eventually Behringer did come out with the Model D (I own one and love it). So- you can either blame me or give me credit. :)

     

    OK, Behringer- here's my next challange. Clone a Hammond B-3.

     

    And a new rotarypedal!

  2. AFAIK, it's a Pianoteq Linux version (also available on the website). If I understand the (the Zynthian) tech stuff properly, it is running a Linux based OS.

     

    One downside to Zynthian is that the OS/build is still 32-bit and Pianoteq arm-32bit is only usable at very low settings on the Raspberry Pi (Zynthian recommends 22005 Hz, polyphony 32).

     

    If you just want to run Pianoteq, you'll get a significant performance boost by running Pianoteq arm-64bit. In that case, you have to skip Zynthian and install a 64bit OS for that device: Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Ubuntu on the Odroid N2+.

     

    The Odroid N2+ has a slight edge because it has 6x cores, 4x of which can be assigned to Pianoteq and 2x for the OS. Plus it comes with a robust heatsink and a very good-usable onboard sound chip. It's also around US$40++ more than the Raspberry Pi 4.

     

    The advantage of the Raspberry Pi 4 is that it's less expensive and has a very good and large user-base - but you do have to add a heatsink/fan + external audio interface, and also overclock it, which gets it to around the same price as the Odroid N2+.

     

     

    ** I went with the Odroid N2+ for my "Pianoteq Sound Module" because I wanted more stuff built-in than not. Performance between the Raspberry Pi and Odroid N2+ is very close, with a very slight edge for the Odroid N2+.

     

    Can you please give more info on how you built your module? Did the Odroid fit right into the Zynthian kit?

  3. Regarding the demos it says: " "Recorded direct into an Audio Recorder-No Leslie Cabinets were used".

    In demo #4 you clearly hear keyslapping and drawbars going in/ out, so there must be a live mic into the recorder just for handeling noise, or what?

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