[LAU] diagrams of audio setup

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Apr 3 05:17:12 EDT 2010


Folderol wrote:
> 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}

OpenOffice.org Draw. Has shapes and connectors that keep the shapes 
connected when you move them around. Lots of formatting and such 
capabilities.

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