Patent ID: 8325945

Claim:
A mixing control device having a plurality of input channels for processing and mixing audio signals according to parameters specified in the respective input channels, the device comprising: a plurality of channel strips that are grouped into at least a first portion and a second portion, each channel strip having a fader operable for controlling a parameter; an allocating part that allocates the plurality of the input channels to the plurality of the channel strips so that the fader of the channel strip is operable to control the parameter of the input channel allocated to the channel strip; an instructing part that provides an instruction to switch the parameter to be controlled by the fader; and a switching part that switches, in response to the instruction, a parameter controlled by the faders of channel strips belonging to the second portion to another parameter of channels allocated to channel strips belonging to the first portion, so that both of the faders of the channel strips belonging to the first portion and the second portion are operable to control the parameters of the channels allocated to the channel strips belonging to the first portion.