In their case, it totally seems like they miscalculated how they were packing/shipping them, and they got smooshed.
My uConsole came in with a dip switch knocking around in the box, it was from the back of the keyboard module.
Thankfully, easily resoldered, I’m not holding it against clockwork. In my case my local shipper tossed the box around on a truck for a week (cyber week lol) before it got to me.
Nice!
I bought my uconsole to use for music production as well. Mainly for Renoise.
I’m fairly new to Linux, does anyone have recommendations for least cpu intensive distros?
I’ve installed Renoise and started a few demo songs. It seems to work very well but as yuki1024 has already mentioned, the UI is really tiny. If you scale it up, it doesn’t seem to fit on the screen any more.
Mirko
Well this looks interesting…if there isn’t a year+ long wait time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOpA_ZbKLKs
Thanks for the response! Bummer about the scaling. I might be able to still make it work if I prep all the instruments on my laptop, then use the uConsole to create the patterns (since the font size can be made bigger) and the arrangement, since you don’t have any text to read while arranging.
What distros is everyone using?
Oh damn thats lgpt that you can get on a cfw psp, pretty cool tracker, speaking of psp theres a project ive been trying out called pspi6. Its a pretty easy mod where you can add a pi (zero, zero2, cm4) onto a custom board that fits into a psp1000 to make it into a pi computer. Still in early testing phase (luckily im in the early adopters group) so software side still needs work but 32bit pi os is available as well as some game os. I mentioned it in this thread So got this PSPi6 while i wait for my order and there should be more boards being developed soon. Ive tried sunvox 32bit on it as well as some other software like Godot (still trying to figure out getting steam on it) but do you guys have any suggestions on what i should try.
I just wanted to note that supercollider works with jack. QJackctl I’ve still had issues with, but I’m happy with sc running.
I’m looking at building a PWA for Basoontracker (BassoonTracker - Amiga music tracker - by Steffest) but it may take some time. It’s a great tracker with direct access to mod archive. I’ve built a webview version for SFOS GitHub - poetaster/harbour-bassoontracker: A WebView wrapper around https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/ just need to port the bits to a debian native webview. Unless someone has a better idea?
Hello! This thread is fantastic to see, looks like you’re putting the uConsole to great use 
I’ve just received my uConsole A06, which I’m intending to use for chiptune music production. I’m just getting set up, can’t wait to get going with it!
I’ve always loved making music on my Gameboy because of the portability. The appeal of the uConsole for me is to be able to use trackers which need a full keyboard in a handheld format.
Specifically I’m intending to run SIDWizard (Commodore 64 tracker) and maybe LSDJ to give me the option of only carrying one device while travelling.
Try out milkytracker and sunvox, sunvox takes things into a more daw environment with some modular synth michanics while keeping it still a tracker
Has anyone tried installing Koala Sampler? there’s a build for RP4 : elf audio - Koala Sampler for Linux
Since it’s a “super rough port” as noted by the author, I wonder it’s usable or is going to run on uConsole at all?
Finally received my unit, it’s super impressive!
Couldn’t launch koala sampler though, seems like the build isn’t meant for the current uConsole OS.
Meanwhile I was able to install reaper with bunch of VSTs and it works great! With 5 vst instruments + 2 vst reverbs in session I’m only at ~17% cpu. Plenty of juice to squeeze. 
Has anyone attempted to setup JACK or/and pipewire with uConsole? With every setting I tried I get very distorted crackly sound through JACK. Only pulse audio seems to work.
I feel like you are the first in this thread to get one, hopefully mine will come soon to join you in seeing what it is capable of
Quickly scrolling through post I see at least 4 photos of consoles month before But I feel you! Waited 7 month for mine, hope you get yours soon 
Oh yh 
my bad but guessing they have forgotten the forum after getting theirs
I received my Uconsole In Jan, I ordered it in Jan '23. Alex was great in communication so i was not stressed at all!
So far, I have installed M8c which ‘worked’ but i couldn’t figure out how to remap the A B X Y controls so that i can zoom around using the Gamepad. I then tried the Derky’s m8 online thing and ran into the same issue. Again the arrows work but doesn’t detect the A B X Y buttons…
Both solutions had crackly audio. (jack or jack2 i forget)
I did have a go using the keyboard and it feels so awesome, especially for sequencing midi alongside in a hybrid setup. absolutely rad.
Just installed Renoise too, the text is a little small but totally clean and useable, (until you’ve gotta alt + shift + arrow key, ctrl + I) definitely chewing through the battery though.
** edit: I might try updating to a low latency kernel, or routing thru pulse audio as suggested above to fix the crackle.
Cool stuff!
I would still need a teensy board connected via USB to run M8 right?
So far ALSA seem to work the best for Reaper which was also the case when I tested similar setup on Raspberry 3B+.
And yes, also looking for a way to remap ABXY pad, Reaper is very powerful in terms shortcut flow which I’d like to take advantage of.
And RT kernel - let me know how it went, very interested in this topic as well. 
Just wanted to let you know that with a little bit of messing with the display scale you can get Renoise working just fine on the A-06 version!
, you can get it by doing sudo apt install mixxx
@yatli im having a little trouble with getting pipewire to install, something about needing glib-2.0 to be on a higher version
Can confim that its the aarch64 version for the vcvrack cardinal, the arm one comes up as an error, also gotten orca working on it too by a build, thanks for reminding me about that little gem
Also
Recommend getting spotdl and yt-dlp for … you know what i am talking about…
spotdl is especially easy with just needing a url
