Running Zynthian on RPi 2?

I’m thinking someone might know of the top of their head: Should it be possible to run Zynthian on an RPi 2 ?

(Long story: I’ve been thinking of getting an RPi 3 based Zynthian as I’ve been getting reports of the MiMi-d plugin consuming inordinate amounts of CPU on that platform, and an advertisement came up for a locally available Zynthian (not an official kit) which at closer inspection was RPi 2 based. I passed on it, partly because I felt it was too expensive for what it was, and partly because I’ve got an RPi 2 lying around, never considering that Zynthian could run on it (upon closer inspection using the Wayback machine, RPi 2 seems to have been the first official platform for Zynthian back in the spring of 2016, although it looks like the first kits used the RPi 3 which became available at that time). Obviously, it would have to be the soon-to-be-replaced 32 bit OS and not 64-bit Oram, but it still would be handy if only to run a single plugin or two, apart from investigating how MiMi-d runs on a platform with less CPU.)

Zynthian is not supported on RPi2. There are many elements that may not work. We strongly recommend not using a RPi2 for Zynthian.

I have a RPi3 based Zynthian. I think you asked me to do some tests which I probably forgot about. I may have some time - so poke me again about that.

If you just want to give your pi2 something to do as a synth, then MiniDexed is a good option. Or Minisynth. If you want to explore Zynthian the it’s going to need a pi3

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