Got everything running nicely on a RPI zero 2W and focusrite Scarlett solo running off the pi’s usb. I must stress again that everything works great with all other plugins. CPU is about 6%, RAM is about 40% and never pins. JACK is running at 48k/128/2 with no xruns. I am on all current versions and …

@3xogenic welcome to the community! NAM uses a lot of cpu so I’m not surprised that you would get high cou usage on a Zero. Did you try the “buffered” mode of NAM? This option is not on the main interface, it’s accessible via the settings option on the plugin. I would assume that even in buffered …

I did try buffered and unbuffered, yeah. I knew nam would be a cpu hog, I didn’t think it would pin the meter. This seems like something else, like some other issues I’ve had with plugins on my pro audio setup where xruns aren’t really generated from missing cycles or cpu power, but a problem with …

You could try changing sample rate, buffers, etc in jack and see if that helps but my opinion is it won’t help much. Even on my pi4 I had to run nam in buffered mode, especially once I added other plugins. You could also try the aidax plugin, it takes less CPU but the trade off is less models exist…

Yeah I was trying all different jack settings. Alright bud, thanks for the help. Maybe I’ll try it on a 4 and see what happens.

If you’re going to invest in another pi I highly recommend the 5 with active cooler. Run Nam unbuffered with other plugins.

I have a 4 waiting, I haven’t thought yet about buying another one, not a huge fan of the company now. But I’ll keep the ones I have and put them to work. Any other SBCs that patch box/model would run on that you know of? Unfortunately pi is probably the standard/best at the moment.

I know a couple of folks on this forum have tried to run modep with other boards but not sure how successful they were. @Giedrius would be able to tell you if any other board would work

Cool, maybe there’s hope then. Essentially I’m looking for a dedicated nam player, other effects are cool and useful but particularly nam is what I’m after. that’s why modep is such a great project, I like it better than guitarix at this point. It would also be cool to run it on a zero 2w since it’s…

Hi, The Dimehead pedal uses a raspberry cm4 and may evolve to a cm5 :wink:. For my part, I installed Modep on a radxa zero with dietpi, everything works and I plan to do it with an sbc based on a rk3588 or rk3576 soc.

NAM maxes CPU, xruns ad inifitum

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