Digital/Analog Patch Bay Setup In Wood Rack Case

Description: Professional Digital/Analog Patch Bay Setup In Wood Rack Case. Listed today is an essential package for the serious recording engineer. This trio of patch bays, rack mounted in a handsome black wood grain case, covers both analog and digital patching needs. Two Gaines Audio professional balanced 1/4” patch bays are hardwired with a variety of connectors, ranging from RCA-1/4”TRS-XLRM-XLRF. Cable lengths vary from about 2-10’. Included are (10) 2’ patch cables. The Midiman DigiPatch 12x6 is described here ( from Sound On Sound magazine): California‑based Midiman have come up with a simple but effective low‑cost solution to digital patching with their Digipatch 12‑in, 6‑out programmable digital patchbay. This 1U rackmounting device, powered by a wall‑wart power supply has 12 digital inputs, each of which may be routed to a choice of six digital outputs. Only one input can be routed to an output at any one time, and no digital signal processing takes place at all, which means that the data structure of the incoming signal is passed through without change, regardless of format, flag settings, sample rate or whatever else. A complete patching setup may be stored as a Program for later recall and, true to the MIDI part of their name, Midiman have given the unit MIDI In and Out sockets for remote Program changing, SysEx dumping and loading of patch data, or control via the supplied utility software (for both Mac and PC). The 12 inputs are arranged as six S/PDIF phono sockets and six optical connectors; the latter can be used either for S/PDIF signals or ADAT signals. There's no AES/EBU option and no TDIF capability — the system is limited to serial digital formats that can be sent down either a standard optical cable or a phono socket. The six outputs are arranged as pairs of connectors so that you get the same signal on both a phono connector and an optical output at the same time. In situations where you need to change optical S/PDIF to electrical S/PDIF or vice‑versa, this is obviously very useful, but because the unit doesn't monitor or interfere with the digital signals in any way, it's entirely up to the user to make sensible routing decisions. If you route an ADAT signal to one of the outputs and then try to read it from the phono socket using a DAT machine's S/PDIF input, for example, it's clearly not going to work. The Digipatch has eight buttons on its front panel, not counting the power LED, plus a 4‑digit LED display showing the Program Number, the Target (output) and the Source (input). The Source number includes a decimal point when an optical source is selected. Routing is accomplished by first selecting the Target output, using up/down buttons, then assigning one of the 12 possible Sources (or no Source at all if you select 0) to it, using the Source up/down buttons. Because you can't mix digital data streams without a digital mixer, you can't route more than one input to the same output, but you can route the same input to two or more outputs to split a signal to multiple destinations. Once the routing has been set up for all the desired outputs, the complete setup may be stored as a Program, the number of which is selected using more up/down buttons. A maximum of 50 Programs (numbered 0 to 49) may be stored. A Store button looks after the storing part of the procedure, while a MIDI button can be pressed and held down to switch the front‑panel buttons to a different mode for MIDI setup. When this button is depressed, the MIDI channel can be viewed and changed using the Program up/down buttons. To disable external Program Changes, the MIDI channel should be set to 00. Also available in this mode is the ability to enable or disable a 'soft Thru' on the MIDI Out socket, and pressing the Store button when the MIDI button is down allows a SysEx dump to be initiated. The Digipatch also features a number of diagnostic routines, activated by holding down certain combinations of buttons during power‑up. Speed your work flow with this versatile setup!

Price: 279.99 USD

Location: Cabot, Vermont

End Time: 2024-02-03T22:31:52.000Z

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