Patent ID: 8503698

Claim:
An audio mixing apparatus comprising: a plurality of input channels; a plurality of audio mixing buses which mix signals supplied from said input channels; a plurality of output channels which output the signals mixed by said audio mixing buses; a cue bus; a storage; and one or more processors configured to: select at least one of the input and output channels, wherein the signal of the selected channel is supplied to the cue bus; perform one or more signal processing operations, selected from among a predetermined plurality of different signal processing operations, on the signal supplied to said cue bus; store in the storage, for each of a plurality of channel types, a set of setting information which contains information for setting ON or OFF of individual ones of the plurality of different signal processing operations, each of the input and output channels being classified into at least one of the plurality of channel types in accordance with an attribute of the channel; reference the set of setting information corresponding to the channel type of the selected channel; determine the one or more signal processing operations in such a manner that each signal processing operation set in an ON state in the set of setting information in correspondence with the channel type of the selected channel is performed on the signal supplied to the cue bus; reference a determining rule corresponding to a channel type, belonging to an applied type, of the selected channel; reference the set of setting information corresponding to a given channel type belonging to a basic type to be depended on in accordance with the determining rule; and determine, for each of the plurality of different signal processing operations, whether the signal processing operation should be set in the ON or OFF state, in accordance with the referenced set of setting information and the referenced determining rule; wherein the plurality of channel types are broadly classified into the basic type and the applied type, content of each set of setting information corresponding to each of the channel types belonging to the basic type being settable independently for each of the channel types belonging to the basic type, and wherein each of the channel types belonging to the applied type is associated with at least one of the channel types belonging to the basic type, content of each set of setting information corresponding to each of the channel types belonging to the applied type being set in dependence on the content of the set of setting information of the channel type which belongs to the basic type and with which the channel type belonging to the applied type is associated.