KnobKraft-orm VS mt32-pi

Consulting the oracle Google I did find one app Knobkraft but it just doesn't want to work correctly for me on my Mac. It complains about not finding python3.10 yet I know it's installed and have it in the environment path.

Check this out, it’s free. https://github.com/christofmuc/KnobKraft-orm

Strange. I actually used a third party tool called KnobKraft-Orm to do the export, so maybe that has something to do with it. I'm on Linux and the Behringer DM app does not work very well on there. I'll have a look when I get back from work.

Yes, that would be how I would do it. I've only dabbled with sysex so far, but I've managed to both export and import patches. I have used an open source sysex librarian I stumbled upon: KnobKraft-orm

I have just seen https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi but it doesn't seem as easy to play with and well-documented as the other software I've used.

Cool system. I'd see if you can get a hold of a Roland MT-32 type synth. If your sound card has a daughterboard connector (it does, top right corner) you can get a Serdaco Wavetable board which would let you have generalMIDI output. An external MT-32 or a mt32-pi will also greatly improve your music output.

Regardless the best option is a MT32-pi solution. https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi/wiki/Custom-hardware

I think MT-32 and SC-55, at least, are wildly overpriced for what they are from a music perspective, thanks to the retro gaming bubble. If you want to mess around with one, I would recommend checking out mt32-pi. In addition to the extremely limited MT-32 sound palette, it can also load soundfonts, which really opens things up a lot.

Check out Mini-Dexed and MT32-Pi. I use both and they're great. They are built on the bare-metal "circle" platform, so they don't run on top of linux (so no faffing about with JACK routing, etc.).

its a CJMCU 5102 DAC Board, which is one of the supported soundcards. You can use the internal headphone jack of the Pi as well, however it only supports 12bit PWM audio there, which is usable but has a lot of artifacts and I would not recommend therefore

You can turn a Raspberry Pi into a Yamaha DX7 using MiniDexed or a Roland MT-32 using mt32-pi (which also loads soundfonts via FluidSynth). I use both of these regularly. They're great. Both work with USB MIDI controllers with no additional hardware required and boot headlessly in a few seconds to work like a true instrument.