In the project’s current state, the VST Dexed is running on the desktop of the raspberry pi. On boot up, the raspberry pi automatically launches Dexed. The presets and midi controllers are saved in the VST so the user doesn’t have to do anything other than power up the pi with the midi controller plugged in before hand to be able to access the VST. 

While this current set up works fine, a headless set up would be preferable. Configuring the raspberry pi to run in headless mode would free up the memory and functionality that would otherwise be spent on the GUI and desktop which are not needed for the purposes of this project. Additionally running in headless mode would make accessing and programming the pi much more reasonable than through the pi's GUI.