Patchbuy question

[Griffin]

I understand the theory and application of a patchbay, but have no idea how the wiring behind it works. No one ever really shows that part of their bends, so I was hoping someone here could enlighten me?

[Signal:Noise]

I should be putting a patch bay in a dd-6 this weekend, so i'll try and take some pictures for you if you'd like.

[Griffin]

that'd be great

[Circuitbenders]

Essentially you just wire your patchbay sockets to the points where you would normally solder switches.

As an example, if you have a 30 pin sound ROM chip in a drum machine or similar, and 25 of the pins produce good effects when shorted to the other pins you could never wire up switches to cover every possible bend combination. In this case you'd want to build a 25 way patchbay with each socket wired to one of the sound ROM pins. That way you can patch the sockets together in any combination.

[Griffin]

Ah....that makes more sense to me now. Thanks for the quick reply!