RPi4 installed RAM

[piattica]

for Zynthian how much it is important the size of RAM on RPi4 board?

[tunagenes]

See this thread:

Trying the Zynthian OS before buying a kit, please help

I never have seen the used ram over 1GB. I doubt you can reach 2GB of used ram with current zynthian software, not matter what sound fonts you load or plugins you use. Perhaps the most ramnivore element is the audio player, and if we improve the use of zynthian as sample/loop player, certainly more ram will be used. Anyway, 4GB is a very decent amount for almost any use-case. Current 32bit image can’t use ram over 4GB but the 64bit zynthian version will be available before Christmas, allowing…

[Baggypants]

I’ve used a 1GiB pi4 since they came out. Unless you’re trying to run an enormous multi-gig soundfont, or compile Surge, it’s fine.

[wyleu]

@Trying the Zynthian OS before buying a kit

Perhaps the most ramnivore element is the audio player,

I’ve run audioplayer lumps of hours it’s not particularly optomised for it on a Pi4 but it works reliably. I’ve had problems with Pi3’s, such that I simply switched back to the 4 for a live use. Not re-tried that but I could drag it out before a too triumphal air creeps into the development team. . . .