[AH] MIDI/CV-Patchbay

[Jim Johnson]

Interesting question. I'm entering about to enter the soldering phase on
one meself.

If you're happy with 1/4" jacks, I would think any patch bay would do. Of
course there is the multiples problem, but that's the nature of 1/4", isn't
it? :')

I came across a pair of Trompeter patch panels, unpopulated, on Ebay a few
months ago for $10. I'm filling some of the holes with banana jacks, some
with 1/4" jacks, and drilling some holes for LEDs, and will be wiring my
Expressionist to it shortly. I'll have a handful of banana to 1/4"
convertors in it as well, along with some manual trigger switches and a lot
of empty holes for future expansion (things like dividers, logic gates,
etc.) 

Jim Johnson 
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On 1/25/00 at 3:17 AM Henning Kristiansen wrote:

>I know this is a common problem which many of s have (too few midi to cv
>channels), I did some searching and found some info in the archieves.
>
>Since I know very little about patchbay's I would love to hear from people
>experienced with using MIDI to CV convertors which are connected to a
>PATCHBAY (and I know a few here have this setup).
>
>My dream-setup would be having all my 4 channels (Kenton pro 4) going to
>this patchbay, and from there, be able to simply patch in the synth I
>wan't to. I have 7 mono synths that I would like to use in a MIDI setup,
>but I "only" have 4 channels.
>
>I would also like to be able to use the patchbay as a "center" for all
>of the synths which has external filter input (maybe running a bus out
>from the mixer to the patchbay where I can patch this signal into whatever
>synth I want).
>
>Maybe a second patchbay (allmost used like a MULTIPLE) would be great?...
>all the Kenton AUX outputs could be routed/patched to *everything* which
>has a 'external cv input'.
>
>Now my question is:
>
>WHAT patchbay's are recomended????????
>What do they cost?.
>
>Remember I have four MIDI to CV out's which I would with easy patching
>like to be able to control (atleast) 7 synths... Would also be nice to be
>able to merge synths together (patch so that i.ex a couple of my SH-X
>synths receive cv/gate from one channel).
>
>Any help here is appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Henning.