# RPi to use PulseAudio **URL:** \ **Category:** Support, Help & Resources\ **Created:** [December 4, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/rpi-to-use-pulseaudio/4739 "2020-12-04T20:27:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![Martin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/in-thread.sonic-pi.net/martin/32/157_2.png) [@Martin](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/Martin)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/rpi-to-use-pulseaudio/4739/15 "2020-12-05T20:17:24Z")
Currently I am using the Pisound as a sound source and am running fluidsynth and soundfonts (e. g. to have a Fender Rhodes sound available). It is possible to boot it without attached screen and automatically run an application such as [Modep](https://blokas.io/modep/docs/) or Pure Data (e. g. with [Automatonism](https://www.automatonism.com/the-software)). I have not yet figured out how to start and configure fluidsynth but that should not be a problem. You can control the Pisound via a multi functional push button, VNC, bluetooth app and/or TouchOSC but I am rather thinking of using it as a simple box which receives midi and returns sound. I have some other components I would like to integrate: a hardware mono synth ([example](https://soundcloud.com/mbutz/after-salad) with SP sequenced Midi) and another [Raspberry-based box](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/what-does-time-mean-in-sonic-pi/4509/8) running sequencing software ([example](https://soundcloud.com/mbutz/infants-dogs-and-bats-can-hear-it) with a sampling software called cheat codes controlled by a [grid](https://monome.org/docs/grid/)). In the center there will be my laptop running a live coding software (be it Sonic Pi or Tidal) which will/should be the master clock. Last but not least I have my guitar (I have recently begun practicing again) which I would like to use in future… 😉 I am still very much experimenting but it is not only - and I guess only to the least part - a technical issue but rather a question of what music I want to make, where I want to code, to control sound or to play the guitar and how the different parts will work together to compose this music. --- _[View the full topic](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/rpi-to-use-pulseaudio/4739)._