On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Tim Ressel wrote:
Hi Tim.
> I am trying to use Visio to document patches on my
> synth. Has anyone done patch docs? What tools did you
> use?
I didn't use patch docs in the past, but i had some thoughts about it. I
got the idea of making some matrix, writing down the ins and the outs of
every module, and then make crosses at the connected jacks. something like
this:
seq vco1 vco2 ...
trig-in vc-out gate-out cv1 cv2 pwm out cv1 cv2 pwm out ...
seq
trig-in
cv-out x
gate-out x
vco1
cv1
cv2
pwm
out x
...
you then can easily substitute the crosses with patch-cables.
one could only write down the ins from left to right and the outs from top
to bottom, but that would ignore some things.
i think this is practical for quick notation but only on small synths
without too many modules. take a big modular system and you have to make
crosses on some A2 papers, or bigger. ;)
greets,
sven.
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