How the hell do you replicate your sounds between performances, recordings, etc.
This must be the musical equivalent of people sending eachother zip files with source code instead of using git, lol.
EDIT: don't get me wrong, not dissing the approach! It looks glorious and I wish I could play with one once..!
Or, some do improvised live patching, in which the goal is NOT to replicate sounds.
Seems complicated, indeed.
Look at this one for instance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_console#/media/File%3A... It has 522 draw knobs and 796 total controls for the musician to use. How do you play something on this organ to sound exactly like another organ?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMLWLM_RbNs
Still, most of the time you find something incredible and it's gone as quickly as it appeared!
Or, in the case of the Medieval, a sound scripture ;)
You can sample certain sounds and perform with that instead.
You can patch it once and never touch again.
You can learn how to patch it exactly the same, even with 100s of cables.
You can keep parts of the patch the same. Some modules can help, saving their internal state or communicating with other modules on their own.
Etc.