Patent ID: 8064621
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: H04H,H04R,H04S

Abstract:
1. A digital mixer having an operating panel, comprising: a storage that stores operating data which consists of a plurality of parameters for controlling audio signal processing in a plurality of channels; a signal processor that performs a mixing process of the audio signals based on the operating data in the storage; a display device; a plurality of panel sections disposed on the operating panel, each of the panel sections including a plurality of channel strips and each of the channel strips includes including controls for controlling one or more parameters of a corresponding channel in the storage; a display controller that controls the display device to display a miniature image of the operating panel, imitating the appearance of the operating panel, on which all channel strips in all panel sections are figured in simplified shape as a plurality of panel section images including a plurality of channel strip images with the same positional relationship as the panel sections and the channel strips on the operating panel; a parameter setter that, upon detecting manipulation of a specific control in one of the channel strips by an operator, sets a value of a specific parameter of the channel corresponding to the one of the channel strips in the storage; and a display appearance setter that changes the appearance of each channel strip image according to the value of the specific parameter of the corresponding channel in the storage.