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Card 616 of 9972026-08-22 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-08-22

Patefact Turns Dante Presets Into a Routing Matrix

patefact.app Observed source
Editorial interest 82/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

An offline Mac and iPad app that opens exported Dante preset files and shows devices, channels, and signal paths in a visual matrix.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-22 issue.

Why it surfaced

Patefact addresses a precise problem in networked audio: understanding a rig from an XML preset without having the hardware online. Its validation checks flag missing channels, duplicate assignments, mismatched sample rates, and clock-domain problems before soundcheck.

An offline Mac and iPad app that opens exported Dante preset files and shows devices, channels, and signal paths in a visual matrix.

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