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PatchBay

PatchBay

Studio cable routing, visualized.

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A living map of your studio.

Every piece of gear. Every cable. Every reason why — captured once, usable by everyone in the band.

↑ Cinematic footage generated with Google Gemini & Veo. Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3.0 at 800×600.

The rig lives on a canvas.

Real gear. Real jacks. Real signal paths. Drag a cable and the room's knowledge updates for the whole band — no more "ask the one person who knows."

  • Front & rear panel flip
  • Rendered cables with real sag
  • Signal-path tracing in five colors
  • A safety engine that stops bad patches before you chase them

So... what is PatchBay?

Every studio has that one person — the one who knows which channel the Juno lives on, why the compressor sidechains from the aux, what that one red cable does. When they're not in the room, the room stops working. PatchBay fixes that.

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Map the whole rig

Every device, jack, and cable on one canvas — the studio's tribal knowledge, made shareable.

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Trace any signal

Ask the rig where a signal goes and it shows you. When something can't work, it tells you why.

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Mac & Windows

A native desktop app built around the room you already have. No cloud lock-in.

Build the room, not a spreadsheet.

PatchBay starts as an empty room. Drop in your desk, your rack, your amps and pedals — then wire them exactly like real life. The room becomes a living document of how your studio actually works.

Zoom from a single jack all the way out to the whole floor plan. The map is always right, because the map is the rig.

▶ See a room built from scratch

Drop in a mix. Get it back in parts.

Feed PatchBay any track and it pulls the mix apart — drums, bass, vocals, synths — and writes down what it hears. Solo a stem, mute another, and start reasoning about how the record was actually built.

  • Stereo L/R stem waveforms
  • Mute / solo any track live
  • Notes on what each part is doing

Gear not in the library? Feed it the manual.

GearForge reads a PDF manual and builds the device — jacks, controls, faceplate — permanently, with zero code. Drop a manual in, get a real, patchable panel out.

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Drop in the PDF manual

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GearForge reads it

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A real device appears — jacks, knobs, faceplate

A full modular system lives inside.

Over a thousand modules, right in the app. Describe a patch in plain English and it's built, wired, and playable in seconds — no DAW required. Chase a Boards of Canada tone and hear it back before the kettle boils.

▶ Watch a patch built from a sentence

The whole studio answers questions.

The assistant knows your rig, runs offline on a local model, and reaches into Ableton, FL Studio & Reason when you ask it to. Tribal knowledge, on tap — private, and yours.

assistant — local
you> where does the vocal chain end up?
patchbay> Mic → API pre (ch 3) → 1176 → Apollo in 1 → Ableton "Lead Vox". Traced & valid.
you> build me a warm detuned BoC-style pad in the rack
patchbay> Patched: 2× VCO (-7¢ / +5¢) → ladder LPF → chorus → tape wobble. Playing now ♪

Watch it work.

♫ STUDIO JUKEBOX — made in PatchBay ♫
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Get PatchBay

Free while in preview. Built for the room you already have.

  Download for macOS ⊞  Download for Windows

Universal binary · ~40 MB · no account required

Frequently Asked Questions

Is my studio data in the cloud?
No. PatchBay is a native desktop app and the assistant runs on a local model. Your rig stays yours.
My gear isn't in the library. Now what?
Feed GearForge the manual. It builds the device — jacks, controls, faceplate — permanently.
Do I need a DAW to use the modular?
No. Over a thousand modules live inside PatchBay. It also talks to Ableton, FL Studio and Reason when you want it to.
Mac or Windows?
Both. One app, built around how you actually work.