Patent ID: 9031262
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G10H,H04H

Abstract:
1. An audio processing unit comprising: an audio input module for receiving one or more source audio signals; an audio output module for outputting one or more audio mixes; a network connection module configured to send and receive audio signals over a network in substantially real-time; one or more input channels for processing the received one or more source audio signals, wherein each of the received source audio signals is processed by an assigned channel of the one or more input channels, and wherein each input channel includes a channel strip comprising a chain of processing blocks to be applied to the received source audio signal assigned to that channel, and wherein an output of each of the one or more input channels is directly transmitted over the network via the network connection module; a digital mixer for generating one or more output mixes by mixing the processed source audio signals received from the one or more channel strips with audio signals received via the network connection module from outputs of one or more real-time audio devices connected to the network; and one or more output channels for processing the one or more output mixes, wherein each of the one or more output mixes is processed by an assigned one of the one or more output channels, and wherein the audio output module is configured to receive and output the processed one or more output mixes.