[sdiy] midi controlled audio patchbays

[tuj at fuse.net]

I'm sorry this sort of strays from topic, but I was wondering if anyone knows of an audio patchbay that allows the routing of points on the front side to be controlled via midi?

I would love to find a unit that had say 24 1/4" jacks on the back, and 24 buttons on the front.  Patching two points would be as simple as holding down a button in one row, then pressing a button in another.  Default would be fully normalled, switching to open when a point was mapped.  Configs could be dumped and reloaded via midi, and switching routing between points would be quick and inaudible (no clicks).

Anything like this?  The only thing I've come across was the Anatek SMP-16.  Otherwise everything else seems to be geared towards more telco-style construction (ie punch-down panels on the back) and also quite expensive.

Maybe I'm naive, but I can't see why something like this should really be so expensive.  I'd gladly pay 3-4 times the cost of a standard patchbay for something like this, but not the several grand of the units I've come across.  Thoughts?

-Jesse Farmer

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"Jay Schwichtenberg" <jays at aracnet.com> wrote:
>Didn't mention if you were running some flavor of Windows. So here goes for
>the Windows stuff. But it's been a long time and I can't remember what
>belongs to what OS.
>
>Some of the OS' have the ability to repair what they call the master boot
>record or mbr. Depending on the OS you might be able to use this as a
>command line option for format or fdisk (format mbr or fdisk mbr). Can't
>remember which. This will rewrite the boot record on the disk. Also with W2K
>there are some recover process' that can be ran from the boot discs.

FDISK /MBR 

will restore the master boot record of a FAT volume.  If you are using NTFS,
this will not work.  Note that /MBR is not included in the /? output of this
command, even though it does work.


>Keep in mind there are a number of things that can hose a dos installation
>on a modern PC. Main thing I ran across in the 512 meg disc limit along with
>a 16 bit FAT.
>
>Jay S.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of J. Larry Hendry
>> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 5:33 PM
>> To: Synth-DIY
>> Subject: [sdiy] OT: I need help form someone that recommended a DOS
>> program link
>>
>>
>> A couple of days ago, someone recommended a link to some software that
>> allowed running DOS programs in the windows environment.  It seemed better
>> than a DOS prompt as it promised real control of the disk drives (for
>> software like blind imaging programs).
>>
>> Unfortunately, I did download and install that utility.  It has completely
>> f**ked my PC.  On booting, I get a "no operating system" error.
>> Well, like
>> any good geek, I got my bootable emergency floppy and booted my
>> machine and
>> mounted my drives allowing me to re-install the operating system.
>>  After all
>> that, I still do not have a bootable hard drive.  So, I am now on
>> a separate
>> PC trying to figure it all out.  If that person could send that
>> link again.
>> I want to go see what's up with that software and see if it will give me
>> some clue as to how to recover from the mess I am in.
>>
>> Sorry for the public bandwidth.
>> Larry Hendry
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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