Exchange of metadata between a live sound mixing console and a digital audio workstation

A system for processing digital audio, the system comprising:

• an audio mixing console;
• a digital audio workstation;
• and
• a high bandwidth connection between the audio mixing console and the digital audio workstation,
• wherein the audio mixing console and the digital audio workstation implement a communication protocol for transferring over the high bandwidth connection audio information received by the audio mixing console during a live performance, and wherein metadata specifying values of a plurality of settings of the audio mixing console that were used to mix the received audio information is transferred over the high bandwidth connection in association with the received audio information;
• wherein the received audio information and metadata is sent to the digital audio workstation and is stored by the digital audio workstation;
• wherein the received audio information and the metadata is retrieved from the digital audio workstation storage and sent to the audio mixing console;
• and
• wherein the audio mixing console is used to edit the metadata such that an edited value of at least one of the settings differs from a corresponding value of the setting that was used to mix audio information received by the audio mixing console during a live performance.

A system for processing digital audio, the system comprising:

• an audio mixing console;
• a digital audio workstation;
• a high bandwidth connection between the audio mixing console and the digital audio workstation for transferring audio information;
• and
• a network connection between the audio mixing console and the digital audio workstation;
• wherein the audio mixing console and the digital audio workstation implement a communication protocol for sending messages between the audio mixing console and the digital audio workstation over the network connection, the messages including metadata specifying a value for each of a plurality of settings on the audio mixing console, wherein each value defines a state of the corresponding setting that was used to mix audio information received by the audio mixing console during a live performance;
• wherein the audio mixing console enables an operator to capture a set of values for the plurality of settings used to mix audio information corresponding to a selected program element of the live performance, and wherein the captured set of values is sent to the digital audio workstation, the digital audio workstation associating the captured set of values with a temporal location within the audio information and storing the audio information and the captured set of values;
• and
• wherein the audio mixing console enables the operator to request and receive the audio information from the digital audio workstation corresponding to the selected program event to cause the mixing console to automatically adjust the values of the plurality of settings to correspond to the captured set of values;
• and
• wherein an operator of the audio mixing console is able use the audio mixing console to override the automatically adjusted values of the plurality of settings to alter a value of at least one of the settings that was used to mix audio information received by the audio mixing console during the live performance.