Patent ID: 8110735

Claim:
An effect setting device, the device comprising: circuitry configured to provide one or more types of effects to an inputted music signal; a first control for setting a patch including the one or more types of effects to be provided by the circuitry to the inputted music signal, the patch associated with multiple candidate keywords created according to the one or more types of effects to be provided by the circuitry; a display device configured to display at least one of the multiple candidate keywords for selection by a user; a second control for providing a patch name to the patch, the patch name including a candidate keyword selected by the user from the multiple candidate keywords created according to the one or more types of effects to be provided by the circuitry; and a storage device for storing the patch and the patch name; the circuitry configured to provide the one or more types of effects to the inputted music signal based on the patch stored in the storage device.