Patent ID: 7421084

Claim:
An analog audio mixing system with digital interface, comprising: an analog mixer including at least one signal path comprising a channel strip and a bus section; an analog-digital interface device coupled with the analog mixer, the analog-digital interface device comprising analog-digital conversion circuitry and digital transmission circuitry that convert analog audio to digital format for transmission along a digital transport interface to an external digital computing device; and a user interface control that permits a user to select one or more points along the signal path of the analog mixer from which analog signals can be tapped and sent to the analog-digital interface device, wherein the analog-digital interface device is configured to tap analog audio from several points along a signal path of the analog mixer, wherein at each of said points an analog audio signal may be tapped at a different stage of processing so that the tapped analog audio signal is further converted to digital format by the analog-digital interface device for transmission to the external digital computing device to digitally process the converted signal.