ECE434 Project - MIDI Sequencer

Team members: Gaven Williams, Brendan Perez

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09 Executive Summary 09 Packaging 09 Installation Instructions 09 User Instructions 09 Highlights 09 Theory of Operation 09 Work Breakdown 09 Future Work/Conclusions 09 Hackster.io 09 Demo/Poster 00 Not Late

Score: 90/100

Executive Summary
We still need a picture that summarizes the project. We will add this when more of the hardware is completed.

Our project is a midi/wav music player. The user can browse through a selection of midi and wav files using an LCD screen and pushbuttons, or put the player in "shuffle" mode.

So far, we are able to play any arbitrary wav file and any midi file. The midi files are able to be played with any desired soundfont, or selection of sampled instruments.

We need to implement the user interface, which includes the pushbuttons and LCD screen. We are also considering a small box to put the user hardware into.

https://github.com/rhit-perezbe/MIDI-Player

Packaging
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We might put the user interface in a small box.

Installation Instructions
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User Instructions
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Highlights
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Theory of Operation
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Work Breakdown
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Future Work
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Timeline
Fri 27-Jan-2023: BeagleBone playing .wav files

Mon 30-Jan-2023: BeagleBone playing .mid files given a soundfont

Sun 5-Feb-2023: Can stop song playing (kills fluidsynth process)

Mon 6-Feb-2023: Breadboarding user hardware

Tues 7-Feb-2023: Software for user buttons

Fri 10-Feb-2023: Start software for LCD display

Mon 13-Feb-2023: Finalize software for LCD display

Fri 17-Feb-2023: Put together box for user hardware

Sun 19-Feb-2023: Finalize documentation (hackster.io, wiki page, etc)

Wed 22-Feb-2023: Final project DUE

Conclusions
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