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I am shortly going to complete the presentation for this class and a quiz for another, but I made massive progress today. It is not perfect but it has enough functionality for a demo tomorrow (though because it’s not perfect … Read More

I forgot that I also needed to compose an actual orchestral piece to demo my program with, so that’s what I did for the entire evening. I didn’t actually compose an original piece, but rather just took Beethoven’s Ode to … Read More

Have made progress in training cascades for different emotion. Meeting with Dave tomorrow to determine implementation methods.

I solved multiple issues just by walking through this diagram … … and it’s not even complete, I suspect. Subject to examination tomorrow morning. Progress relative to what I anticipated: basically good. Details: I process text from forms and can … Read More

Thanksgiving is over. I exercised my prerogative to take a break and did no work in the last week. I also chose to give my final presentation this week, so I have a firm timetable that prioritizes this project (both code … Read More

Yesterday was a pretty big day as I was able to implement FluidSynth’s sequencer with fewer lines of code than I originally thought I needed. While the program is still not completely perfect, I was able to take the average … Read More

The past few days have been pretty uneventful, since I’m still feeling sick and I had to work on another paper for another class, but I am still reading through the FluidSynth API and figuring out how scheduling MIDI events … Read More

Today, I found out how to automatically connect the FluidSynth audio output to the computer’s audio device input without having to manually make the connection in QjackCtl every time I run the program, and how to map each instrument to … Read More

Yesterday, I changed the velocity value of every offbeat to make them the same as the previous onbeat since the acceleration at each offbeat tends to be much smaller and the offbeat notes would be much quieter than desired. This … Read More

Yesterday, I only had time to make relatively small changes to my program, but I did write more of the readme in more detail explaining how to use the program. Even more will be explained as I finish developing my … Read More

I finished my draft yesterday and I am proofreading it today before submitting it. I am still also looking into integrating python scripts into a webpage.

In a shorter amount of time that I thought, I was not only able to add FluidSynth to my program, but also able to get working MIDI audio output from my short CSV files, although I had to configure JACK … Read More

I am spending today (Tuesday) writing the paper. I have now written all section and subsection headers that I need into it and started incorporating useful bits of the proposal as a baseline. In an effort to produce a working … Read More

Working on the draft. Also worked on reorganizing my software directory for better structure.

I did a little more reading this weekend. Tomorrow (Monday) I’m occupied with meetings and classes, but I’m dedicating all day Tuesday to concluding my readings, completing the first draft, and (I hope) finishing iteration zero of the software. Because … Read More

I have been working quite a bit on my program. I set up what I think will be my primary database for info related to diseases. I have also been updating my github to reflect the updated state of my … Read More