Patent ID: 8515106

Claim:
A method for providing an interface to a processing engine that utilizes intelligent audio mixing techniques, comprising: triggering by event a request to change a perceptual location of an audio source within an audio mixture from a current perceptual location relative to a listener to a new perceptual location relative to the listener, wherein the audio mixture comprises at least two audio sources, wherein the request comprises a perceptual angle of the new perceptual location, wherein the request further comprises a defined duration that is desired for transitioning to the new perceptual location; generating one or more control signals that are configured to cause the processing engine to change the perceptual location of the audio source from the current perceptual location to the new perceptual location via separate foreground processing and background processing, wherein the separate processing comprises processing a foreground signal differently than a background signal; and providing the one or more control signals to the processing engine.