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Samplerbox with zynthian mainboard - mello234 - 23-01-26
Hello,
I hope you are doing well. First of all, thank you for SamplerBox — it’s a fantastic and very useful project.
I am currently trying to run SamplerBox on a Zynthian V5 main board. My setup uses SamplerBox together with an autosampler workflow, but unfortunately the official SamplerBox system image seems not to properly support the MIDI input/output of the Zynthian V5 main board.
From what I understand, this may be related to differences in the hardware abstraction and audio/MIDI stack. The Zynthian V5 uses a custom main board with its own MIDI routing (via internal USB MIDI, ALSA configuration, and specific device naming), while the SamplerBox image appears to be built around a more generic Raspberry Pi MIDI setup (typically USB MIDI or standard GPIO-based UART MIDI).
Because of this, the MIDI ports from the Zynthian main board do not show up correctly or are not accessible to SamplerBox when using the official image.
I was considering an alternative approach and wanted to ask for your opinion:
Would it make sense to install the standard Zynthian OS image, remove unnecessary components, and then install SamplerBox manually on top of it?
Do you have any recommendations regarding:
- The best way to integrate SamplerBox with an existing ALSA/JACK-based system like Zynthian?
- Any specific dependencies, kernel modules, or MIDI configuration details I should be careful with?
- Whether SamplerBox can reliably work using ALSA MIDI ports instead of expecting specific device names?
Thank you very much for your time and for creating such a great tool.
Best regards, Mello
RE: Samplerbox with zynthian mainboard - petedevries21 - 27-02-26
I am also interested in this.