Print the sheet

The right-hand panel is a live preview of the patch sheet. It redraws a moment after every edit, so what you see is what prints.

What is on the sheet

• Header: the band or act name (the patch name if you left it empty), venue and date, then a line with Last updated: and the date — so a crew can tell an old print from the current one. When you gave the patch a name of its own, it is printed there too as Version:.
• Channel table, one row per channel in channel order, with the columns Ch · Source · Strip · Mic / DI · Stand · 48V · LC · Color · DCA.
• Strip is the short name that goes onto the console's scribble strip, so the crew can match the sheet to the desk.
• 48V is printed white on black, so nobody on a dark stage misses it.
• Color shows the swatch and the colour's name, so the sheet still says "Magenta" on a black-and-white printer. The column appears only when at least one channel actually has a colour.
• Stagebox appears as an extra column only when at least one row has a stagebox / physical input entered; Notes likewise.
• A stereo pair prints as two rows tagged L and R.
• DCA groups are listed under the table, numbered, for every group you named — unless the patch has Use DCAs switched off, in which case the DCA column and the list are both left out.
• Outputs / mixes follow: the main, every mix bus and matrix you named in Outputs & routing, and the output sockets each one feeds — what the monitor tech and the stage hand patch from. Slots with no name and no socket are left off.

Print

1. Check the preview.
2. Tap Print above the preview or Export → Print in the top bar (or Export → PDF sheet (A4) for a file), or press Ctrl/⌘+P.
3. In the browser's print dialog, choose the printer or Save as PDF.

Only the sheet prints: the platform chrome, the grid, the DCA strip and the project bar are hidden on paper, and table rows are kept whole across page breaks.

Export

Export sits in the top bar, next to the console picker:

• PDF sheet (A4) — the sheet as a proper PDF file, named after the band, venue and date. This is the one to mail to the venue. A long patch breaks across pages with the column headers repeated; every page is numbered, and pages 2 onwards carry the band, venue, date and version at the top, so a loose page still says whose patch it is.
• CSV (channel list) — every channel with every column, for Excel, Sheets or Numbers. It opens as UTF-8, so umlauts survive.
• Print — the browser's own print dialog, including its Save as PDF.
• X32 / M32 scene (.scn) — the patch as a console scene file. See below.
• Allen & Heath SQ show (USB) — shown instead of the scene when the console is an SQ. See the SQ show below.

Your scene or show files never leave your device — PatchSmith rewrites them in the browser and hands you the result as a download.

The console scene (.scn)

PatchSmith writes your channel names, colours, stereo links, DCAs, the bus / matrix / DCA labels and the low cuts into a scene file the console can load. It asks which scene to start from, and the two answers behave differently:

Use my own scene file — recommended. Pick a .scn saved off your desk. PatchSmith rewrites only the lines it owns and copies everything else through untouched, so your routing, head-amp gains, EQ, dynamics and faders come back exactly as they were. Nothing you did on the desk is reset.

Start from a blank console. A factory-reset scene. Fine at the top of the day — but it carries its routing, so if you run stageboxes over AES50 it will switch your inputs. Use your own scene instead.

What lands on the console:

What it deliberately does not touch: routing, head-amp gains, 48 V, EQ, dynamics, gates, sends and faders. A patch sheet names channels; it does not mix the show. The output sockets you set under Outputs & routing go on the sheet only — no console file gets them.

What was tested, and when

The scene format was learned from two scene files saved by a real M32. Then:

• 23 September 2026 — M32-Edit. A PatchSmith scene was loaded in M32-Edit, a DCA was assigned, and the scene was saved back out. That file matched PatchSmith's line for line; the only difference was the scene name, renamed by hand. The check covered channel names, colours, stereo links, DCA 1, the bus, matrix and DCA names, and the low cut — the console stores 79 for what everyone calls the 80 Hz cut, so PatchSmith writes 79 and a round trip leaves no trace.
• 1 October 2026 — the writer changed. Since then the own-scene export writes a low cut only where you set it yourself, and touches a stereo link only where both channels are on the sheet. This version has not been loaded on a desk or in M32-Edit yet; automated tests check it against the files from the September check.
• X32: no PatchSmith scene has been loaded on an X32 or in X32-Edit yet. The X32 and the M32 share the scene format.

The SQ show

With an Allen & Heath SQ-5 / 6 / 7 picked as the console, Export offers an SQ show instead of the scene.

• It writes channel names and colours only — the desk's eight colours, and names cut to the 6 characters an SQ shows. The export shortens longer names and lists the ones it shortened.
• Stereo links and DCA assignments are not written yet. Link the pairs and assign the DCAs on the desk.
• Use my own show — recommended. Pick the files of a show folder — off the USB stick (AHSQ, then SHOWS) or out of SQ-MixPad's SHOWS folder: NVDATA.DAT, every SCENE file and SHOW.DAT. Your patch, gains, processing and routing pass straight through. Copy the files from the zip back into the same folder.
• Start from a blank console — SQ-MixPad's default show, in a folder called SHOW0099. It carries the factory patch, so if your inputs come from a stagebox, use your own show instead. Copy the folder into SHOWS on the stick.
• Channels above 48 are left out — an SQ has 48 input channels. They stay on the printed sheet, and the export names them.
• Before it writes anything, PatchSmith checks that all 48 channels in every show file sit where it expects them. If one file has a layout it does not know — a newer SQ firmware, say — it stops and writes nothing at all.

Load the show on the desk from the USB stick, or open it in SQ-MixPad first.

Tested in SQ-MixPad 1.6.1 (27 September 2026): MixPad opened a PatchSmith-written show with every channel name and colour in place. It has not been loaded on an SQ desk yet.

If the PDF refuses

The PDF embeds a font so the file looks the same everywhere. That font covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic — including Polish, Czech and Turkish — but not Japanese, Chinese or Korean. A sheet containing those characters — in the patch, or in the column headers when PatchSmith runs in Japanese, Chinese or Korean — will not export as a PDF, and says so rather than handing you a sheet with missing words. Use Print instead: your browser has those fonts.