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On the why-doesn’t-somebody-make-it front, where is my MIDI patchbay. I know all about automated MIDI patchbays and I have a couple of them, but I want something that lets me physically move cables around, and has a splitter and a merger. it’d have four jacks per channel, and probably just four channels, and probably require power.
The jacks would be – Input1 + Input2 = Output1 + Output2. I think it’d be most useful for them to all be on the front panel. Actually, even cooler would be all of them on the front panel, with thrus for the inputs (unsummed) and two outputs on the back panel. I’d happily pay $400 for one of these, especially if every jack had link and activity lights like a network hub.
Then, continuing on my dream model, there’d also be one midi input that was added (merged) into *all* the bitstreams.
You could probably impliment the whole thing with four moderately beefy ATMegas. I’d arrange to have it built, but again, I lack the funding to do serious hardware development and I don’t know how it’d sell. Send me a quarter of a million dollars and I’ll send you the prototype and the gerbers and the software and my blessings to make as many of them as you want. Or I’ll do it for $15,000 upfront and $10 on every unit you sell.
Any takers?