Cable list
| Label | Source | Destination | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| A01 | Lead vocal · Out | Stage box · IN 1 | 10 m |
| A02 | Snare · Out | Stage box · IN 2 | 10 m |
| A03 | Keys DI · Out | Stage box · IN 3 | 12 m |
| R01 | Stage box · Dante 1 | FOH console · Dante 1 | 30 m |
The desk arrives tomorrow. The patch goes out tonight.
Draw the AV system diagram once.
The paperwork follows.
An audiovisual system diagram editor for live production and events. You draw consoles, speakers, fixtures, cameras, switches and distros, pull cables between their sockets, and the cable list, the patch sheet, the equipment list and the title-blocked PDF come out of the same drawing. The link opens on the crew’s phones, no account needed.
6 devices · 4 cables · 62 m · No errors
Your turn: Rio outputs to the amp, secondary Dante to the desk.Your turn: tap a Rio output, then an amp input.
Keyboard: Tab to a socket, Enter, then Tab to the target socket, Enter. Esc cancels.
What that line just wrote
Cable list, patch sheet and title block recompute on every line, with the same functions the app uses.
Patch sheet
| Inputs | Label | Far end |
|---|---|---|
| IN 1 | — | free |
| IN 2 | — | free |
| IN 3 | — | free |
| IN 4 | — | free |
| AES3 IN 1 | — | free |
| AES3 IN 2 | — | free |
| LA Network 1 | — | free |
| LA Network 2 | — | free |
| Power | — | free |
Title block of the A3 sheet
One more cable: the sheet routes it, bundles it with its neighbours when it can, and the title block recounts.
What the diagram generates
Nothing is re-typed. The four documents below are computed from the sound example by the same functions the app runs, on every change.
Cable list
One label per cable, its source, its destination and its length — the sheet you follow while pulling cable.
| Label | Source | Destination | Signal | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A01 | Rio3224-D2 · OUT 1 | PSM 1000 · IN 1 | Line (analogue) | — |
| A02 | Rio3224-D2 · OUT 2 | PSM 1000 · IN 2 | Line (analogue) | — |
| A03 | Rio3224-D2 · OUT 3 | LA4X · IN 1 | Line (analogue) | — |
| A04 | Rio3224-D2 · OUT 4 | LA4X · IN 2 | Line (analogue) | — |
| A05 | Rio3224-D2 · OUT 5 | LA4X · IN 3 | Line (analogue) | — |
Five of the 31 cables of the sound example.
Patch sheet
One sheet per device, inputs then outputs, with what’s connected and what’s free.
| Port | Signal | Connector | Cable label | Connected to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN 1 | Microphone (analogue) | XLR 3-pin | A18 | SM58 / Out |
| IN 2 | Microphone (analogue) | XLR 3-pin | A17 | SM57 2 / Out |
| IN 3 | Microphone (analogue) | XLR 3-pin | A16 | SM57 / Out |
| IN 4 | Microphone (analogue) | XLR 3-pin | A20 | e906 / Out |
| IN 5 | Microphone (analogue) | XLR 3-pin | A15 | Beta 52A / Out |
Rio3224-D2: the first inputs of its patch sheet.
Equipment list
The devices to load, the cables to prep, and the adapters called for by the diagram’s checks.
| Qty | Brand | Model | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yamaha | Rio3224-D2 | Rio3224-D2 |
| 1 | Shure | Axient AD4Q | Axient AD4Q |
| 1 | Shure | Beta 52A | Beta 52A |
| 1 | Shure | PSM 1000 | PSM 1000 |
| 2 | Shure | SM57 | SM57, SM57 2 |
Five of the 11 lines of the equipment list.
Title-blocked PDF
The full diagram, framed and captioned, ready to send to the client or hang in FOH.
What the engine refuses, and why
An etherCON on both ends, the plug goes in without forcing, and nothing will get through: one side is Ethernet, the other is Dante. Usually you find out at soundcheck. Here, the moment you pull the line. Written, reviewed, tested rules. Nothing guesses.
Three separate axes
A port crosses three independent pieces of information: its direction (input, output, bidirectional), the type of signal it carries, and its physical connector. An RJ45 says nothing on its own: it can carry Dante, Art-Net, or a control link. That’s why a cable Technipatch refuses is always refused for a precise reason — incompatible signal, incompatible connector, or both at once.
FOH console · Dante 1etherCONFOH amplifier · LA Network 1etherCON
Incompatible signals: Network (Ethernet) on one side, Dante on the other.
Same etherCON on both ends, not the same signal.
Five trades on one canvas
Sound, lighting, video, network and power are drawn on the same sheet. Each cable carries one signal type, each socket one connector, and the two are checked separately: an RJ45 can carry Dante, Art-Net or a control link, so the plug alone never decides. When a project mixes families, tabs above the canvas isolate one at a time, computed from the same diagram.
729 entries covering consoles, speakers, fixtures, cameras, SDI and ST 2110 capture cards, networking and installation gear (Extron, Crestron, Q-SYS, Biamp, BrightSign, meeting-room audio and video), reviewed in batches one by one against the manufacturer’s documentation; an entry not yet reviewed carries an orange dot in the interface. A device missing from the catalog is created in two minutes, ports included, and then kept under “My devices.”
Three example projects
Each one opens in the editor as a scratch project: it loads next to your own work and never replaces it.
Concert sound: front of house and monitors
Concert Setup - Sample
20 devices, 31 cables, 3 zones.
Small video setup with an LED wall
Small video setup
9 devices, 8 cables, 2 zones.
Small venue concert: sound and lighting
Concert — small room
11 devices, 10 cables, 0 zones.
No account to draw
Drawing, checking, exporting and sharing by link work without any account. A free account, opened by verifying an email address, keeps one project on the server with its revisions. Pro, €19 a month or €180 a year, keeps two hundred projects and puts your logo in the title block.
Guides
Written to be read on their own, with the product’s own calculations as examples: what a cable list must contain, how two DMX addresses collide, what an A3 sheet needs to stay legible on a desk.
- Cable list
- Stage plot and patch sheet
- DMX addressing
- Audio over IP
- Power distribution
- Export and print formats
- The three axes
- Public examples
Compared with other tools
The canvas is already open
Drop five devices, pull cables between their ports: the cable list, the patch sheet and the equipment list fill themselves in while you draw. No account, no card.