My findings so far (After 2 days with my uConsole):
VCV Rack via Cardinal works with the default distro. Your mileage may vary performance wise, but it’s surprisingly capable, you want the aarch64 build I believe, if I’m wrong then its the armhf version (but I believe that’s 32bit)
Sunvox is great but you need to use an older version for it to run, click the tiny archive link at the bottom then search for version 2.1c in the dropbox, it works. Credit to @xordspar0 for pointing out the older versions!
@timbient I’ve been on the Orca train for a while! I can’t launch the itch version, but it’s easy to build the C variant and it’s running really nicely. Hint: Ctrl-d to open the menu, it’s the console version so no clickable UI, the link has a guide
m8c runs really well if you have a headless M8, to make the gamepad buttons compatible you have to add this line to the bottom of ~/.profile:
export SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG="03000000af1e00002400000010010000,ClockworkPI uConsole,platform:Linux,a:b1,b:b2,x:b0y:b3,back:b8,start:b9,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,"
To use m8cs internal audio handler, you need to modify /home/<username>/.local/share/m8c/config.ini changing the audio_enabled flag to true. It’s also possible to route with jack/alsa but I haven’t gotten that far just yet.
Portmidi works between Orca, Sunvox, m8c and Cardinal out of the box. I know routing things via jack or alsa is probably the way to do it for best effect, (also enabling rt audio) but… I’m very lazy and this seems to work lol.