Patchbay Touchpoints
Eight strips of copper tape have been added to the patch bay circuit. The copper strips are soldered to headers so they can be used to make connections in the patch bay, providing a more dynamic control over the routing of signals.
During testing, the touch points only worked if connections were made using the same finger, and occasionally when using multiple fingers on the same hand. This is probably due to the values being too low to be detected by the arduino. Switches were added as a more reliable, short term solution for gating connections.
Through this experiment and the previous exploration of CMOS chips I have started to think about groups of connections/controls and how these elements can interact to create larger structures/networks.
Each module will have a button for adjusting the more detailed and less accessible parameters. This button could also allow for the selective manipulation of groups of connections such as:
-smoothing
-freezing and sah functionality
-introducing noise into signals (infect other connections due to proximity?, signal decays the further it travels?)
-storing and recalling presets (although this may get confusing as the physical cables will no longer represent the routing inside the software)
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