Patent ID: 6954409

Claim:
A ping-pong recording method for use with a multi-track recorder apparatus that includes a randomly accessible storage medium, comprising the steps of: (a) dividing multiple tracks on the randomly accessible storage medium on the multi-track recorder into: (i) musical part recording tracks and (ii) at least two or more groups of mixdown recording tracks; (b) recording a group of musical signals on each of said musical part recording tracks, and storing said group of musical signals in a saving area on said storage medium so that they can be reproduced at a later time; (c) reproducing said musical part recording tracks on which the group of the musical signals have been recorded in the step (b), and recording the musical signals for which the mixdown have occurred on one of said at least two or more groups of mixdown recording tracks; (d) for each group of musical signals that are different from the preceding group of musical signals already recorded on the appropriate musical part recording tracks, repeating the steps (b) and (c); and (e) reading the groups of musical signals from said saving area as required, and loading said groups of musical signals onto said musical part recording tracks so that they can be reproduced at a later time.