Progress
This week I worked on finishing up the first versions of effects modules. At this point, the distortion module is essentially completed, while the delay and reverb modules should be finished up this weekend. These first versions will have the necessary functionality, but are not tweaked for sounds, which is something that will be worked on in the upcoming weeks. Unfortunately, I cannot really test the effects in real life until the rest of the synthesis pipeline is in, however, I may consider using Matlab to run some simulations to fine-tune some of the effects parameters.
Realizing that the midterm demo is soon upon us, I have also spent a lot of this week revisiting the MIDI interface and decoder parts of the pipeline, since that will be critical for the midterm demo. The parts I need for the MIDI interface were obtained this week and after some simulation testing of the interface this past week, it should just be a matter of putting the pieces together.
Scheduling
While I was able to work over Spring Break, I did not end up having as much time as I anticipated, thus I am not as far as I would like to be. The goal right now is to be in a presentable state for the midterm demo, which I think will be alright, and I am potentially going to be taking over some parts of the synthesis pipeline from Jens in order to get the core of those modules absolutely nailed down. Next week, we will be spending a lot of time doing integration and integration testing, but hopefully, any issues we iron out next week will be mean that integration later will be trivial, as only the internals of the modules should change and not the interfaces between them. For the effects and such, I will begin functional testing, but tweaking and fine-tuning will likely wait until the week after.
