This repository is archived. Future development will happen at elektrofon/pianoberry. This archive is left as a guide on how to approach building a custom Raspberry OS with the official pi-gen tool

PIANOBERRY

Headless* Pianoteq on Raspberry PI 5 with Pisound sound card.
Tweaked for ~10 seconds boot time and ~1.5ms latency at 96kHz sample rate.

* Headless: without a monitor, keyboard, or mouse.

Trying

1. Download the latest image
2. Flash the image to a microSD card using Raspberry Pi Imager
3. Insert the microSD card into the Raspberry PI 5 with a Pisound sound card
4. Connect a MIDI keyboard to the Pisound MIDI input
5. Play!

Building

Download Pianoteq 8

Download the Pianoteq 8 ARM64 version from the Pianoteq website.
Place the Pianoteq 8 binary file in the pianoberry/00-pianoberry/files directory.

Install dependencies and configure

./configure

Building Raspberry PI image

./build.sh

The image will be created in the pi-gen/deploy directory.