Replacing Daisy Seed board on Patch module

[Antonio]

Hi, the Daisy Seed board on the Patch module may be replaced for any standard Daisy Seed board?
Thank you in advance! Antonio

[Manysounds]

Yes.
Why would you do this?

[Antonio]

a) in case of failure (I forced too much a cable connected to the USB port losing contact with the computer)
b) to get a second board loaded with different devices (Owlsy) in absence of a computer

[tunagenes]

re “a)” - I have managed to repair ST development boards where the micro usb connector was torn off. It looks crude but can be made to work.

re “b)” - Wow - interesting use case - you could have a ‘library’ of Daisy Seeds available! Of course at some point the Computer becomes a more practical approach. But if you take the multiple pre-programmed seed approach you could also replace the Patch socket with a ‘Zero Insertion Force’ which PJ_Noxon found in this thread:

Off the shelf Seed Socket

Hi friends, I have a Seed and I need to just connect power and audio in/out to incorporate this into a much larger prototype (maybe later add some control pots and such) so I want to buy a socket where I can plug the Seed into this. Is there an off the shelf socket that will fit the Seed? I am not sure of the exact dimensions, I expect the 20 pins are on .1" centers but how far apart are the two rows? Is it a standard dimension?

[Antonio]

Yes, using Owlsy you can load and store in Daisy memory multiple devices from the Owl library (Rebel Technology) I have stored up to 18 different Owl programs on the DaisySeed in my Patch module and select them with the encoder pot…great! so in a live performance situation you have a bunch of devices installed on your DaisySeed to choose without the need of a computer.