Custom Pure Data Groovebox + Zynthian Main Board V5.1 PACK

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Hi @johannkabuye - This topic seems to have some similar questions:

Using Zynthian Main Board as Standalone Audio/MIDI Interface (without full Zynthian stack)

Hello, My name is João Pedro. I recently purchased the Zynthian main board with the goal of building a portable AutoSampler device. My intention is to create a small standalone sampler that I can take to different places, using only a simple 2x16 character display and the Zynthian audio and MIDI interfaces. I realized that getting the main board to work outside the full Zynthian kit is much more complex than I expected. From my experiments, it seems that the main board works properly only with…

re your question 2 - you can just plug the SD Card directly into the Pi if it is accessible in your design. The adapter lets you use the SD socket on the Zynthian Mainboard, since on Zynthian V5 the Pi is sealed in the case and you don’t have access to it.