Headless Zynthian + HiFiBerry DAC+ Missing MDA ePiano instrument

Using Zynthian
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I’m beginner to zynthian and synthesizers in general.

I’ve started out with a headless Raspberry Pi 4b, aluminum heatsink w fan and HIFiBerry DAC+ with a vintage Axium 25 midi keyboard plugged in via powered usb hub to the pi.

I was spelunking through the pi UI when I connected hdmi monitor and was able to test out a few instrument chains and can hear sound. Great!

I logged in to pi through webconf app and toggled MDA ePiano in engines tab, rebooted but it doesn’t appear in my instrument list on pi. For that matter a lot of the enabled instruments in web app aren’t visible on pi.

Is there a config setting I’m missing? Is it because my audio board doesn’t support these instruments?

Here are some screen shots:

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Yes, you’re missing that the instruments are divided into categories - I’m not sure what controls you have, you have to turn a different encoder to change categories.

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Is there a way to toggle categories with a keyboard and mouse since I’m just running bare bones pi? lol I figured out with keyboard. Right arrow key to switch categories! Thanks!

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You can use the mouse to do equivalent operations, I don’t know specifically how.
Oram user’s guide
https://wiki.zynthian.org/index.php/Zynthian_UI_User’s_Guide_-_Oram
Processor categories:
https://wiki.zynthian.org/index.php/Zynthian_UI_User’s_Guide_-_Oram#Processor_categories

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You can use the left/right arrow keys to change groups.

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