I've written a ChucK script to concurrently instantiate samples with their own effects chains with the aim of creating a kind of kaleidoscopic music box that randomly plays filtered longish samples (say up to two minutes). The box bit is intended to be a raspberry pi.

Running on a pi the program maxes out at two concurrent samples and a modest effects chain for each. Ideally I'd prefer to double or even triple that so clearly I need to scale back my resource-intensive intentions, along with attempting to improve the pi's performance (overclocking, for example). There are concrete steps to take on both these fronts, but I have two concerns I'd be keen to get advice on:

1. Is ChucK the best electronic music platform to be doing processor-intensive tasks on a low-power processor?

2. Is building a processor-intensive composition on a raspberry pi (as opposed to building a hardware controller-related application) bordering on folly?

I realise the second question is more open-ended and philosophical, but I'd be interested to hear other perspectives :)

Many thanks

Stuart