[LAU] diagrams of audio setup

Folderol folderol at ukfsn.org
Sat Apr 3 05:09:04 EDT 2010


On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:42:46 +0200
Atte André Jensen <atte.jensen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to document my non-trivial live-setup, and would like to traw 
> some flow charts of audio and midi routing. I tried dia, but it seems to 
> insist that one "box" can only have one "input" and one "output" (I'm 
> using the symbols from "flowchart".
> 
> Is there a way to do this in dia, or is there something better/different 
> that I should look at?
> 
> I imagine something like this:
> 
>   ______
> |      |
> | FA66 |----       _________
> |      |----------| JackRack|
> |      |          |_________|
> |      |           ____|_|______
> |______|          |SooperLooper |
>                    |_____________|

If it's a relatively small drawing I'd use Inkscape rather than a
dedicated CAD package. I use it for lots of medium complexity circuit
drawings.

Once you've designed the objects, copy/repeat is a doddle and you can
just 'wire' them as you like in whatever grid size you want.

For example:

http://www.folderol.ukfsn.org/drawings/chime_control.svg

SVG file so poor IE users won't be able to see it {snigger}

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.


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