As we noted in the design report, the main risk we face in our project is not being able to achieve exact accuracy in meeting timing and rhythm requirements that we laid out in our design requirements. While we have confidence in our ability to replicate common tunes, we foresee challenges for songs and pieces that are very complex in rhythm with very fast playing of notes. To mitigate this risk, we will not support playing songs that have notes with note values smaller than our system can support. In addition, we will preselect a set of songs for demo that we can ensure are playable by our system.
After establishing our model for the system architecture, each of us has been tasked to focus on different subsystems. Rahul, who is working on the GUI, will have to get more familiar with the syntax of pygame to flesh out the application design. Nora, who is emphasizing efforts in the note scheduling, will have to ensure type safety of the data as it is handled in the music21 data classes. Aden, who is leading the building of the accompanyBot player structure, may have to get familiar with the Solidworks and also learn circuit breaker operation to implement that portion of the circuit.
So far, we have been meeting the milestones on time. Our parts have all arrived as well, so we are not worried about any delays due to shipping. Thus no changes were made to our existing schedule or system.