Allocation to channel strips in audio signal processing apparatus

An audio signal processing apparatus for performing signal processing on audio signals input to a plurality of channels, comprising:

• a plurality of channel strips, each of the plurality of channel strips including at least one manual operator for adjusting a parameter value of signal processing to be performed on one of the channels or a group of two or more of the channels allocated to the channel strip as an object of operation;
• a storage section storing object-of-operation designation information that designates objects of operation to be allocated to individual ones of the plurality of channel strips, wherein, for each of the plurality of channel strips, the object-of-operation designation information designates the channel or the group of two or more of the channels as the object of operation of the channel strip, or designates one or more of the channel strips as one or more deploying channel strips for individually deploying thereto any one of the channels belonging to the group of two or more of the channels;
• a first allocation section that, based on the object-of-operation designation information stored in the storage section, allocates objects of operation to the plurality of channel strips, and that allocates none of the channels or the group of two or more of the channels to the one or more of the channel strips designated as the one or more deploying channel strips and makes a setting to an effect that each of the one or more of the channel strips designated as the deploying channel strip is to be used as the deploying channel strip;
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• a second allocation section that, in response to a deploying instruction of a given group of two or more of the channels, allocates individual one or more channels belonging to the given group of two or more of the channels to the one or more of the channel strips designated as the one or more deploying channel strips by the object-of-operation designation information.

A method for allocation to channel strips in an audio signal processing apparatus for performing signal processing on audio signals input to a plurality of channels, the audio signal processing apparatus including a plurality of channel strips each including an operator for adjusting a parameter value of signal processing to be performed on one of the channels or a group of two or more of the channels allocated to the channel strip as an object of operation, the method comprising:

• preparing object-of-operation designation information that designates objects of operation to be allocated to individual ones of the plurality of channel strips, wherein, for each of the plurality of channel strips, the object-of-operation designation information designates the channel or the group of two or more of the channels as the object of operation of the channel strip, or designates one or more of the channel strips as one or more deploying channel strips for individually deploying thereto any one of the channels belonging to the group of two or more of the channels;
• allocating objects of operation to the plurality of channel strips based on the prepared object-of-operation designation information, wherein, for each channel strip designated as the deploying channel strip, a setting is made to an effect that the channel strip designated as the deploying channel strip is to be used as the deploying channel strip without any channel or group of two or more of the channels being allocated to the channel strip designated as the deploying channel strip;
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• allocating, in response to a deploying instruction of a given group of two or more of the channels, individual channels belonging to the given group of two or more of the channels to the one or more channel strips designated as the one or more deploying channel strips.

A non-transitory storage medium containing a group of instructions for causing a processor to perform a method for allocation to channel strips in an audio signal processing apparatus for performing signal processing on audio signals input to a plurality of channels, the audio signal processing apparatus including a plurality of channel strips each including an operator for adjusting a parameter value of signal processing to be performed on one of the channels or a group of two or more of the channels allocated to the channel strip as an object of operation, the method comprising:

• preparing object-of-operation designation information that designates objects of operation to be allocated to individual ones of the plurality of channel strips, wherein, for each of the plurality of channel strips, the object-of-operation designation information designates the channel or the group of two or more of the channels as the object of operation of the channel strip, or designates one or more of the channel strips as one or more deploying channel strips for individually deploying thereto any one of the channels belonging to the group of two or more of the channels;
• allocating objects of operation to the plurality of channel strips based on the prepared object-of-operation designation information, wherein, for each channel strip designated as the deploying channel strip, a setting is made to an effect that the channel strip designated as the deploying channel strip is to be used as the deploying channel strip without any channel or group of two or more of the channels being allocated to the channel strip designated as the deploying channel strip;
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• allocating, in response to a deploying instruction of a given group of two or more of the channels, individual channels belonging to the given group of two or more of the channels to the one or more channel strips designated as the one or more deploying channel strips.