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PatchBank
- Stage
- Live
- Role
- Design, build, maintain
- Field
- Modular synthesis · Eurorack · Web app
- Live at
- patchbank.app
A platform for modular synthesiser players to catalogue their modules, document patches, and share them with other people.
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Free for hobbyists · No card required
01 — What it does
5 parts
A rack is a system worth writing down
- Module cataloguetrack a whole collection, with specs, notes and documentation against each module.
- Patch librarydocument a patch with its connection diagram, parameter settings and audio samples, so it can actually be recalled rather than half-remembered.
- Parameter trackingknob positions and switch settings recorded alongside the patch.
- Audio samplesattach a recording to a patch, so the notes and the sound live together.
- Share and discoverpublish patches, and find sounds other people have built.
02 — Why it exists
Modular setups are hard to keep track of. A rack grows a module at a time, and a patch that sounded remarkable on a Tuesday is gone by Thursday unless something wrote it down. PatchBank is the thing that writes it down.
The same interest that produced the Sound, Synthesis & Hearing course — a rack is a system worth understanding, and a patch is worth keeping.
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