Patent ID: 8014543
Filing Date: 2011-09-06
Classification: H04H

Abstract:
1. A mixer apparatus comprising: manually-operable and automatically-driveable physical fader operators provided in corresponding relation to a plurality of channels, wherein a plurality of desired physical fader operators of said fader operators are capable of being grouped into one of a plurality of groups and said physical fader operators in each of the groups are operable collectively in an interlocked fashion; a display device; a display control section that opens, on a screen of said display device, a window of a given one of the groups in response to selection operation by a user and displays, on the window, individual operator images indicative of individual settings of individual ones of said physical fader operators belonging to the given group and a group-master operator image for the given group; and an image operation section that, changes a display of the operator images in such a manner that settings of the individual operator images belonging to the given group, displayed on the window of the given window, are changed at a rate or by an amount corresponding to operation by the user of the group-master operator image, and that automatically drives the individual fader operators belonging to the group collectively in an interlocked fashion at a rate or by an amount corresponding to the operation by the user of the group-master operator image to thereby change the settings of the individual fader operators.