Patent ID: 7350156
Filing Date: 2008-03-25
Classification: G11B,H04H

Abstract:
1. An audio signal editing apparatus comprising: an operation panel including a display device and a plurality of operators, said display device and said plurality of operators being provided on said operation panel, said operators divided into a plurality of operator groups, said display device being capable of selectively displaying one of a plurality of screens corresponding to the respective operator groups; a first memory that stores a plurality of parameters; a signal processing section that performs signal processing on an input audio signal to output a processed audio signal, said signal processing section performing the signal processing on the basis of the parameters stored in said first memory; a second memory that stores interlocking information which indicates whether an interlocking function is valid or invalid for each of the operator groups, wherein said interlocking function interlocks the operation of any one or more of the operators on said operation panel by a user with a control to display a screen corresponding to a particular one of the operator groups which the operator on said display device belongs to; a setting section that sets the interlocking information in said second memory in response to operation by a user; a parameter change section that, in response to operation by the user of any one of said operators, changes a value of the parameter, stored in said first memory, that corresponds to the one operator; and a screen change section that, in response to operation by the user of any one of said operators, controls said display device to display said screen corresponding to a particular one of the operator groups, which the user-operated operator belongs to, when said interlocking information indicates said interlocking function of the particular operator group is valid, and said screen change section keeps a current screen displayed on said display device unchanged when said interlocking information indicates said interlocking function of the particular operator group is invalid.