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Another example was put out by the DIY synthesizer kit company PAIA [1]. They had a patch notation system in which control voltages and connections were repres

Another example was put out by the DIY synthesizer kit company PAIA [1]. They had a patch notation system in which control voltages and connections were represented vertically and sound signal flow and processing was represented horizontally. The system was presented in a small booklet called The Source, which I have been unable to locate online, except for a photo of it with a PAIA synth [2]. The Source diagrams resemble the Figure 4 example by Allen Strange in TFA. [1]. https://paia.com/ https://paia.com/ [2]. https://www.matrixsynth.com/2012/02/1981-paia-4700-modular.html https://www.matrixsynth.com/2012/02/1981-paia-4700-modular.h...

denton-scratch 2y ago
That sounds a bit like the patch cards for the EMS VCS3; you puhed pins into the square patchboard to connect-up the modules. If you mounted a piece of card over the patchboard and pushed the pins through that, the card became a record of your patch. Of course, you couldn't "read" the card and guess what it souned like; the patchcard didn't record the settings of the knobs either.