This is the Tesseract Modular 8X8 Buffered Matrix.
It’s a simple, manual module.
- Every output has a rotary switch to select an input.
- A bi-color LED next to every switch gives visual indication of the signal going through it.
- It can be used as one or more traditional buffered multiple.
- Available for DIY or assembled. (I bought assembled.)
Why am I so excited about it? I create complex control structures for making ‘automatic music’. For this type of patch I often need to choose from many different ways to connect segments of the patch together for feedback. My practice has been to settle on one and explore it, because changing to another configuration would take a lot of repatching.
While searching Modular Grid for switching modules, I came across the Tesseract 8X8 switch. Most switch modules provide CV control over the switching. This makes them expensive and complicated. Here we have a set of eight manual switches, each with eight positions. Each switch is associated with an output, to select from one of the inputs. This allows me to have eight sources and eight destinations and route them as I wish. There is no mixing involved. There’s no need to refer to a printed manual; it’s so straight-forward!
And it’s buffered, so when one input goes to multiple outputs there is no signal loss, just like a buffered multiple. Plus there is a bi-color LED monitoring each output.
