CROSS FADER UNIT, MIXER AND PROGRAM

• US 20120109348A1
• Filed: 05/25/2009
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Matsunaga, Satoko, Suzuki, Shogo, Koizumi, Shinya, Takahashi, Shinji
• Application Number:
  US13/322,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20120109348A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/038 Cross-faders therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 5/025 Equalizers; Volume or gain control in limited frequency bands
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/04 Studio equipment; Interconnection of studios

Abstract

A cross fader unit, a mixer and a program which can achieve various music expressions with a simple manipulation are provided. A cross fader unit CF has an adjustment device by band 50 that adjusts a mixing rate of the audio signal in each frequency band by moving a plurality of the manipulation members each of which is a manipulation member by frequency band divided into a plurality of bands of the audio signal on a corresponding line 52.

Claims

1-23. -23. (canceled)

24. An adjustment unit that adjusts a mixing rate of a plurality of audio signals comprising an adjustment device by band that adjusts the mixing rate of the audio signal in each frequency band by a manipulation member for adjusting the mixing rate by frequency band divided in a plurality of bands of the audio signal.

25. The adjustment unit according to claim 24, wherein the adjustment device by band adjusts the mixing rate of the audio signal in each frequency band by a plurality of the manipulation members by frequency band.

26. The adjustment unit according to claim 24, wherein the adjustment device by band adjusts the mixing rate of each audio signal assigned to both ends of a line by moving the manipulation member on the line.

27. The adjustment unit according to claim 26 further comprising a display device by band that displays the mixing rate of the audio signal in each frequency band adjusted by the adjustment device by band.

28. The adjustment unit according to claim 27, wherein the adjustment device by band and the display device by band are configured by a touch panel having a display function.

29. The adjustment unit according to claim 28, wherein the line is provided by the frequency band and the adjustment devices by band are disposed in parallel having space thereamong such that a plurality of lines corresponding to a plurality of frequency band have same length and both ends of each line are in alignment on a straight line.

30. The adjustment unit according to claim 29, wherein the adjustment device by band can adjust the mixing rate of the audio signal in a corresponding frequency band by being touched at an arbitrary position on each line corresponding to each frequency band.

31. The adjustment unit according to claim 30, wherein the adjustment device by band adjusts from the mixing rate at the arbitrary position to a mixing rate at an assigned position assigned before the touch or at a predetermined position to change gradually or instantly when the touch at the arbitrary position of the line is released.

32. The adjustment unit according to claim 30, wherein the adjustment device by band holds the mixing rate at the arbitrary position after the release when the touch at the arbitrary position on the line is released.

33. The adjustment unit according to claim 29, wherein the adjustment device by band adjusts the mixing rate of the audio signal in a frequency band corresponding to each line to a maximum value viewed from each end side by manipulating a pair of maximum switching members provided at both end sides of each line.

34. The adjustment unit according to claim 29 further comprising a spectrum analyzer display device that displays by spectrum analyzer by frequency band, wherein the spectrum analyzer display device displays an input level and an output level of the audio signal assigned to both ends of the line as a minimum value at an intermediate position or the both ends on the line and as a larger value toward each end.

35. The adjustment unit according to claim 34, wherein the adjustment device by band can adjust the mixing rate of the audio signal in the corresponding frequency band while an upper limit value of the input level of the audio signal assigned to both ends of the line in each frequency band is being displayed by the spectrum analyzer display device.

36. The adjustment unit according to claim 34, wherein the plurality of lines corresponding to the plurality of frequency bands are virtual lines and the spectrum analyzer display device displays by spectrum analyzer each frequency band corresponding to each line by overlapping with the plurality of virtual lines.

37. The adjustment unit according to claim 25 further comprising a main adjustment device that adjusts integrally mixing rates of audio signals in all the frequency bands independently from the adjustment device by band.

38. The adjustment unit according to claim 37, wherein the adjustment device by band adjusts a mixing rate of the audio signal in other frequency band except one or more than one assigned frequency bands among the plurality of frequency bands to a mixing rate adjusted by the main adjustment device.

39. The adjustment unit according to claim 37, wherein the adjustment device by band has a reset device that instantly adjusts the mixing rates of the audio signals in all the frequency bands to the mixing rate adjusted by the main adjustment device.

40. The adjustment unit according to claim 37, wherein the adjustment device by band adjusts, when a target value is set in either one of the plurality of frequency bands and the main adjustment device is adjusted, the mixing rate of the audio signal in the one frequency band to a mixing rate on a basis of the target value and adjusts with variation the mixing rate of the audio signal in the other frequency band except the one frequency band on a basis of a band difference from the one frequency band.

41. The adjustment unit according to claim 40, wherein the adjustment device by band conforms the mixing rates of the audio signals in all the frequency bands to the target value when the adjustment by the main adjustment device coincides with the target value.

42. The adjustment unit according to claim 24, wherein the adjustment device by band has a grouping device that divides a plurality of frequency bands in groups, and an adjustment device by group that adjusts the mixing rate of the audio signal in one or more than one frequency bands belonging to a same group simultaneously and in a same manner.

43. The adjustment unit according to claim 42, wherein the adjustment device by group adjusts oppositely at least one group among other groups when an adjustment of either one of groups among a plurality of groups that are grouped is made.

44. The adjustment unit according to claim 26, wherein the adjustment device by band adjusts other frequency band based on a band difference from one frequency band when either one of the frequency bands among a plurality of frequency bands is adjusted.

45. The adjustment unit according to claim 44, wherein the adjustment device by band adjusts other frequency band, when an adjustment to either one of the frequency bands among a plurality of the frequency bands is made, such that a mixing rate of the audio signal in the one frequency band after the adjustment becomes an upper or a lower limit value viewed from both end sides of the line and such that a mixing rate of the audio signal in the other frequency band gradually decreases or increases on a basis of the band difference.

46. The adjustment unit according to claim 24, wherein the frequency band is divided with reference to a sound range of an instrument.

47. The adjustment unit according to claim 24 further comprising an assignment device that assigns the plurality of audio signals to the adjustment device by band.

48. The adjustment unit according to claim 47, wherein the assignment device can make a selection by which the plurality of audio signals are not assigned to the adjustment device by band.

49. The adjustment unit according to claim 47, wherein the adjustment device by band has a plurality of positions at which each audio signal is assigned and adjusts the mixing rate of the audio signal based on a position of the manipulation member on the plurality of positions, and the assignment device assigns the plurality of audio signals to the plurality of positions of the adjustment device by band.

50. The adjustment unit according to claim 49, wherein the assignment device can assign the plurality of audio signals to one of the plurality of positions.

51. A mixer comprising:

each device of the adjustment unit as set forth in claim 24;

an audio signal input device through which the plurality of audio signals are input; and

a mixing process device that performs a mixing process by frequency band on the plurality of input audio signals based on an adjustment result by the adjustment device by band.

52. A computer-readable medium that causes a computer to function as each device in the adjustment unit in claim 24.

53. A method of adjusting a mixing rate of a plurality of audio signals having a step of adjusting the mixing rate of the audio signal in each frequency band by a manipulation member for adjusting the mixing rate by frequency band divided into a plurality of bands.