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So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers? (lemmy.world)
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I dunno when it happened but I swear SBCs were the new best thing in the universe for a while and everyone was building cool little servers with their RockPis and OrangePis.

Now it's all gone x86 and Proxmox with everyone shitting on Arm. What happened? What gives?

Is my small army of xPis pointless? What about my 2 Edge routers?

I've got about 6 xPis scattered round my flat - is there anything worth doing with them or should I just bin them?

All thoughts, feelings and information welcome. Thank you.

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

What is that virtual pipe organ and why is it using 69 GB RAM when running?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    It is software (grandorgue) that pretends to be a pipe organ (the instrument). In order to run fast enough it needs to load every sound sample into memory to play, as well as usually multiple kinds of sound endings. I play professionally on a "small to mid sized" pipe organ with 1,438 pipes. The one I load for use at home has more than that!

    The instrument was from the 1960s and I rebuilt it with a pi pico that you can see here, and you can hear the before (analog sound cards) versus one of the organs I've loaded into it here.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    That’s amazing sounding! Worth the watts, even if I did get church ptsd listening to it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hahaha yeah…it’s in many ways unfortunate that if you want to play/enjoy this instrument churches are the only option most of the time :/

    Definitely worth the watts though!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I’ve been recently bingeing Look Mum No Computer’s rescue/re-build/midi-fication of an organ that had been shoehorned into an organist’s home, after the church had been converted. I’m more of an engineer than musician, but it’s amazing how much goes into the layering of sounds from so many different pipes.

    My 6 yo loves learning with such a cool soundtrack too.

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