Building an arduino controlled patch bay

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mazzarotti

Joined Oct 31, 2010
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Hey all,

I have a drum machine that I am short circuiting for artistic purposes. There is a 32 pin IC on the PCB, and I am turning the pins into a patch bay (so i can connect any of the 32 pins with any of the remaining 31 pins). I can make a physical patch bay, but I want to make a virtual patch bay using PureData with Arduino, and this is where I run into a problem.

I don't know how I would build this in a circuit.

I have a vague idea floating around, something like 64 (32x2, or would it be 32^2?) open circuits and the arduino closes a circuit which would be the equivalent of physically patching.

Any suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
 
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