MOTM

Thomas Hudson writes:
>>Canare with the color representing length (can't remember the exact length), 
blue spans a row, red, two rows, black three.<<

Color representing length? I got into this same argument with someone else. 
Color for length just gives you a messy rainbow jumble of cables in a patch. 
Color for signal type can be more useful. I use red for audio and blue for 
control. I suppose if I wanted I could also use yellow for 
gates/triggers/clocks. This better allows one to look at a patched up synth and 
see what's going on. I can trace the audio signal for instance by just looking 
at the red cables.

-Elhardt

I actually considered this, but at the time my method of patching was to
throw all my patch cables (all black cable) across my shoulder before
starting a patch, and I was always grabbing the wrong length. Since
then I've found a nice cable rack that I mounted on the side of my  
modular
and have cable lengths by position in this rack, so color coded length  
is
not as useful or necessary as it use to be, since my patch cables are
stored "mullet-style" (short in front, long in back).

However, I'm not sure I would have the discipline to choose the color
for the type of signal. What do I use when I take the audio out from
a 300 to the control in of a 700? I tend to think of everything as
control voltage until it reaches the speakers :-).

Tomy

On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 12:14 AM, elhardt@... wrote:

> Thomas Hudson writes:
>>> Canare with the color representing length (can't remember the exact  
>>> length),
> blue spans a row, red, two rows, black three.<<
>
> Color representing length? I got into this same argument with someone  
> else.
> Color for length just gives you a messy rainbow jumble of cables in a  
> patch.
> Color for signal type can be more useful. I use red for audio and blue  
> for
> control. I suppose if I wanted I could also use yellow for
> gates/triggers/clocks. This better allows one to look at a patched up  
> synth and
> see what's going on. I can trace the audio signal for instance by just  
> looking
> at the red cables.
>
> -Elhardt
>
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