Patent ID: 7436971

Claim:
A mixing signal-path setting apparatus for making a setting of a signal path in an audio mixing system, said audio mixing system comprising a plurality of input channels and a plurality of output channels, said audio mixing system performing signal mixing by connecting each of plural input channels, selected from the plurality of input channels, to at least one output channel selected for the input channel from among the plurality of output channels, said mixing signal-path setting apparatus comprising: a first signal path setting section that selects plural input channels from among the plurality of input channels and makes a setting such that signals of the selected plural input channels are mixed into a first output channel selected from among said plurality of output channels, so that signals, obtained by mixing the signals of all of the selected plural input channels, are outputted via said first output channel; an exclusion setting section that selects a particular input channel, from among the selected plural input channels, to be excluded; and a second signal path setting section that makes a setting such that the signals of said plural input channels selected via said first signal path setting section, having the signal of the particular input channel selected by said exclusion setting section excluded therefrom prior to mixing in a second output channel of the plurality of output channels, are mixed in said second output channel, so that signals, obtained by mixing the signals of the selected plural input channels with the particular input channel excluded therefrom, are outputted via said second output channel.