Patent ID: 7430454
Filing Date: 2008-09-30
Classification: G10H,G11B

Abstract:
1. A multi-track digital recording/reproducing apparatus for recording/reproducing multi-track digital audio data, comprising: a multi-track recorder that records/reproduces digital audio data to/from a plurality of recording tracks; an input patch that, in response to a user operation, selectively assigns one of a plurality of input terminals to each one of a plurality of mixer input channels, wherein said each one of the mixer channels is supplied with audio data from the assigned one of the input terminals; a mixing bus that, in response to a user operation, selectively inputs audio data from said mixer input channels and/or audio data reproduced by the multi-track recorder, mixes the input audio data, and outputs the mixed audio data; a track assigner that, in response to a user operation, assigns one of said mixing bus and the input channels to at least one of the plurality of recording tracks, wherein said at least one of the tracks is supplied with the audio data output from one of the assigned mixing bus and the assigned mixer input channel directly, and records the supplied audio data; an instruction device that, in response to a user operation, issues an instruction of a quick recording setting that designates, for each of arbitrarily selected one or plurality of the mixer input channels, one of the input terminals and one of the plurality of recording tracks; and a quick recording setting device that, in response to said instruction of a quick recording setting, assigns the designated input terminal to the designated recording track so that the designated recording track is supplied with audio data, to be recorded, from the designated input terminal via the arbitrarily selected one or more of the mixer input channels, wherein the user setting of said input patch and said mixing bus are left unchanged with respect to the channels other than the arbitrarily selected one or more of the mixer input channels.