Week 1 (1/8 - 1/22) Hardware Testing and GUI Research

This week I researched the advantages of the Raspberry Pi 5 compared to the Raspberry Pi 4B that we originally purchased for this project. The Raspberry Pi 5 is 2-3x faster than its predecessor due to its RAM and Processor upgrades. In our proposal presentation, the Engineers feared that the Raspberry Pi 4B won't be fast enough to process our effects and maintain the latency we are required. Testing will begin this week to see if the Raspberry Pi 4B or the Raspberry Pi 5 will be used for the project. I also began research on our GUI. I researched many ways to attach the VSTs Jose is creating to a GUI. The two routes that are presented will be to branch off the Python GUI that was made last semester or use VSTGUIs that are coded within C++. The drawback with using the GUI made last semester with Python is a possible latency error combining the Python code with the VST code in C++. The drawback of using VSTGUIs is the time it will take to create a GUI of this complexity. There may be a third option of creating a GUI using C++ that isn't a VSTGUI but more research will be needed to come to a decision.