"Digital" patch bay? has it been done...

[FredrikCarno]

Hello

I was thinking something in lines of the switchblade guitar switching system (www.soundsculpture.com) but aimed at studio owners with a lot of outboard gear. Connect everthing to it and control it say via usb and a computer, has some company made this product?

[waxx]

i've seen some in broadcast studio's from Friend-Chip. They work with the different protocols (aes/adat/tdif/...) trough modules and have convertors form the one to the other protocol (it's kind of modular)

http://www.friend-chip.de/

[Rob King]

I actually own the DMX 32 by Friend-Chip and it is an amazing unit. Mine is loaded with 24 channels of AES and 80 channels of ADAT. Works great! I highly recommend it.

[XSergeantD]

Zsystems if you need one. pick your matrix size ya need

[sleepwalker]

I've used the Apache at work and it seems to work great. It's great for 8 chanenl mults. I can send the same AD channels to two or more computers.

I've heard good things about the Z-systems AES patcher too.

Originally Posted by FredrikCarno

Hello

I was thinking something in lines of the switchblade guitar switching system (www.soundsculpture.com) but aimed at studio owners with a lot of outboard gear. Connect everthing to it and control it say via usb and a computer, has some company made this product?

[DrDeltaM]

If you mean a digital controlled analog patchbay, have a look at this: http://www.cmlabs.net/sixtyfour.html

[FredrikCarno]

Originally Posted by DrDeltaM

If you mean a digital controlled analog patchbay, have a look at this: http://www.cmlabs.net/sixtyfour.html

this is what I've been thinking of... thanks DrDeltaM...

@XSergeantD

this is interesting too... thank you

these things can really improve my workflow