Nice! I've just recently started targeting the 64-bit Pi as a plugin platform, and have ported my entire library to it. So that's nearly 300 plugins also for th

Nice! I've just recently started targeting the 64-bit Pi as a plugin platform, and have ported my entire library to it. So that's nearly 300 plugins also for the Pi, but no synths, just audio processors. And I use Dexed to make sounds, so this is right in my wheelhouse. Even have spare Pi 3s kicking around :) I'm still trying to get Renoise up and running on the new Pi (400), but have already demoed a full Reaper mix with various plugins running that was made on an iMac Pro with no consideration as to CPU load, running just fine on the Pi too. All the sounds were 96k and on the Pi the project was resampled on the fly to 48k, but it played! Add the right synths (such as Dexed: I like running it at 24 bit as a sound design machine, not just a DX7 imitation) and samples and the Pi is starting to turn into a full-on music workstation. Thrilling! I would add that running Dexed on a bare metal Pi, means that you don't have to reinvent sound design and can use patches made elsewhere… but then, play them on the discrete unit, through whatever DAC, and then DISTORT them in analog in whatever circuit you devise, or a stompbox. Or simply run it into a ADC, some basic thing, that's not meant to take those high levels: I have a Razer thing that's easy to distort by running into its little mic input. Overdriving FM with analog distortion gives you intense sounds that you'd struggle to match, purely in the box :) and being able to run a Dexed on a spare Pi makes all this very easy, doesn't it?