[sdiy] Patch documentation

[Peter Grenader]

I'd like to see something like what Reaktor uses to make patches with.
Boxes connected by lines, all drag and drop.

Then you click on any given box (each being a module), and a screen pops up
with the dial settings.



Sven Windischwrote:

> 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.

Peter Grenader

http://www.buzzclick-music.com

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