On the subject of Raspberry Pi 4 and Mac M1, I got to compare the two in an interesting way recently. A bit over a month ago, I began supporting the Pi 4/400 (

On the subject of Raspberry Pi 4 and Mac M1, I got to compare the two in an interesting way recently. A bit over a month ago, I began supporting the Pi 4/400 (possibly some of the earlier?) with my audio plugins (VST2.4, which Reaper etc. can use). So new plugins automatically include a Pi build, but also all nearly-300 previous plugins are included, and I got to test out a full mix on RPI Reaper. But I don't have an interface for it, I had to use the HDMI output to get audio. But I could still run Reaper and use that output… so I brought in a mix I'd made on an iMac Pro (not the hugest, about 14 tracks but all 24/96 and not intended to be CPU-friendly at all) Turned out it played back just fine on the Pi, though the project rate was forced to 48k. That meant all the files (I think?) were resampled on the fly to fit into the downsampled project, which doesn't make the process more efficient. But the whole thing played fine… off a Sandisk SD card, not an SSD. If I had an interface that I could record with, I'd be able to do music production work on a Pi. I'd probably want to lean on tracking external instruments, analog synths and such rather than leaning heavily on softsynths. I'm also eager to get Renoise working on the Pi, though I've had no luck with it yet. Renoise exporting individual tracks to be mixed in Reaper and have more tracks overdubbed, is a workflow that really clicks with me, and in theory the whole thing can run on a Pi 4. I have the whole plugin collection here for anyone else into music production on the Pi 4: again, this is a bit over a month ago, didn't exist before then. https://www.airwindows.com/raspberry-pi/ https://www.airwindows.com/raspberry-pi/