Re: [fluid-dev] Small fast-start platform

2022-02-19 Thread Ben Gonzales via fluid-dev
Hi Bill, Geoff, and Marcus. I now have enough to keep me busy for a while, with options for using a RPi and speeding it up, or using another platform. Thanks for your help Ben On 19/2/22 20:26, Marcus Weseloh wrote: Hi, I'm running FluidSynth on an embedded system in a musical instrument,

Re: [fluid-dev] Small fast-start platform

2022-02-19 Thread Marcus Weseloh
Hi, I'm running FluidSynth on an embedded system in a musical instrument, boot time from power-on to system-ready-and-playable is between 4-6 seconds (depending on the initially loaded soundfont). The hardware is an Allwinner A20 dual-core system from Olimex. It's available as a SOM (which is wha

Re: [fluid-dev] Small fast-start platform

2022-02-18 Thread Geoff Plitt
I'd love to get a sub-5-second boot working FluidSynth demo going. I'm interested to work on this with somebody. The problem with ultra-fast RPi booting is I'm not sure enough drivers/services will be running for FluidSynth to really work. Here are some fast-booting RPi claims: - https://kevinboon

Re: [fluid-dev] Small fast-start platform

2022-02-18 Thread Bill Peterson
I'm looking at the plot from systemd-analyze, which gives times from when the kernel starts, so I guess it doesn't include boot. If I time with a stopwatch it is about 25 seconds from power on until ready to play. Not that fast I guess. On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 11:10 PM Ben Gonzales via fluid-dev <

Re: [fluid-dev] Small fast-start platform

2022-02-18 Thread Ben Gonzales via fluid-dev
Hi Bill. That's not including boot I assume? Ben ___ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev

Re: [fluid-dev] Small fast-start platform

2022-02-18 Thread Bill Peterson
How fast do you need? I've been able to get FS start times of 7-10 seconds on a Raspberry Pi by running it as a systemd service. Here you can see the unit file I use, if tha

[fluid-dev] Small fast-start platform

2022-02-18 Thread Ben Gonzales via fluid-dev
Hi all. I've been running FS on Raspberry Pis for a number of years now. I'm looking for a new platform that runs FS, is small, low power and starts fast. Is there such a thing? The obvious choice for this is a Pi Zero, but it's not too fast in starting. Ben