NAM player from PiPedal

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#1

Hello,

the NAM plugin that comes with the MOD is not very well optimized. It is capable of running only nano captures if you are lucky.

The pipedal project however have a different implementation that makes running full scale captures without any problems.

It should be possible to copy the binary LV2 plugin to MODdwarf OS and run it.

#2

That’s not possible. If anything the performance would be worse without targeted bulids.

Is this pipedal project opensource? or we can ask them to port their plugin to MOD.

#3

Those are the plugins that pipedal uses: GitHub - rerdavies/ToobAmp: A set of high-quality guitar effect plugins for Raspberry Pi with specific support for PiPedal.

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#4

Thnx for linking the relevant plugin source-code.

I’ve moved the topic to Plugin Requests.

#5

Any optimizations are better sent to GitHub - mikeoliphant/NeuralAudio: C++ library for real-time processing of audio neural network models which has the become the basis for any NAM related functionality with Linux and/or LV2 (the official NAM plugin supports neither of these)

A while ago I tested updated and optimized NeuralAudio on a Dwarf, but it is still not enough to run standard models.

I dont think the PiPedal project really has more optimized general version, it is just that the Pi has more CPU power than the Dwarf, and thus can NAM related stuff better.

The use of PGO (profile-guided optimizations) is something the ToobAmp author said improves CPU usage and I still need to try, but it’s unrelated to any project though and just a generic optimization technique that can be applied to any plugin.

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#6

yeah - looks like the Pi is indeed just more powerful

“A Pi has much more CPU horsepower than a MOD Dwarf. 2.4Ghz A76s x4, vs 1.3GHz A35s x4. Not just the clock speed; there’s also a huge difference in performance between an A76 and an A35.”

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#7

To be clear you are saying “Raspberry Pi 5”, because there are enormous differences between the different “Pis”.
(and it doesn’t make much sense in plainly comparing with “Raspberry Pi”)

The Dwarf is somewhat comparable to a Pi 3B+ in that regard.

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