PATCHBAY
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Lucerne, Switzerland · founding cohort

A network for
real-life
musicians.

Your gear, your skills, when you're free — one page you can put in your bio. Musicians find each other, keep every franc, and go make something.

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300 founding slots · free forever
PATCHBAY
Gear · skills · availability

A patchbay routes signal between gear. This one routes it between people.

What a patch showsThree core blocks

Not a bio. A spec sheet.

01

Gear

Everything you actually work with — instruments, outboard, amps, the DAW you live in. Rare pieces get flagged, so somebody hunting a Juno can find yours.

  • Instruments, outboard, ampslisted by name
  • Rare findsflagged and searchable
  • DAW and softwareso sessions land ready
02

Skills

The specific things you do well, down to the micro-skill: vocal comping, analog summing, session guitar, drum tuning. No star ratings, ever — the work speaks.

  • Skills and micro-skillsyour own words
  • Audio examplesoptional, always
  • Star ratingsnone
03

Availability

Ready now, within a month, or open to offers — plus how fast you usually answer. People stop guessing whether you have time this week.

  • Ready now / within a monthopen to offers
  • Response timemeasured, not claimed
  • In person or digital link-upyour call
How it worksFind · patch in · make
  1. 01

    Find

    Map and radius for the people you can be in a room with. Or drop geography entirely for a digital link-up — vocals from anywhere onto a track made here.

    Open search
  2. 02

    Patch in

    A request lands first. The other side accepts before any direct line opens, so nobody's inbox turns into a dumping ground.

    Claim your patch
  3. 03

    Make the thing

    Chat, a shared spec sheet both sides can edit, and the files. When it ships, the thread archives itself.

    Get started
The money

0%
cut.

You keep 100% of what you earn. We never touch the money — it goes from the person paying to the person playing.

The only deduction is the payment processor's own fee, roughly 2–3%, and that goes to the processor, not to us. No commission on your fee, no cut of your rate, no percentage for putting two musicians in touch.

Zero platform commission · payment-processor fees only

Patches in the networkSee everyone
PatchBay · founding members

The first 300
get it free,
forever.

Full feature set, nothing held back, no card. Founding members are grandfathered permanently — a founding cohort of a local scene, not a trial with a clock on it.

  • 300

    founding members, then the offer closes.

  • 0

    features gated. Everything unlocked from day one.

  • 4 min

    to build your patch — pick from lists, barely any typing.

Claim your patchFounding slots open · no card, no trial

The honest small print: free forever covers the features, not infinite hosting — fair-use storage and bandwidth limits apply to everyone, and founding members always get at least the standard limits at no cost. One slot per person, tied to you and not transferable. A slot is claimed when your profile is complete.