[sdiy] Front panel design philosophies

[Stewart Pye]

On 4/25/2015 11:46 AM, Lanterman, Aaron wrote:
> Where did the input on the bottom, output on top convention come from? I’m not sure why to be but it somehow feels more intuitive to me to have inputs on the top and outputs on the bottom. Like the audio is flowing with gravity or something, maybe.

It makes sense from a studio patchbay point of view, because you have 
the output of one device which flows down to the input of another 
device. On the patchbay I'm looking at now I have my synth outputs on 
the top row normalled to mixer inputs on the bottom row of the patchbay.

When you are talking about inputs and outputs on a single module it 
would make more logical sense to have the inputs on the top and outputs 
on the bottom. I personally prefer to have all sockets on the bottom, 
with inputs on the left and outputs on the right.

Regards,
Stewart.