Mixer Channel Strip Allocation for Flexible Group Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing audio signal processing systems face limitations in flexibly allocating channels from a group to channel strips, especially in small-scale mixers where channel strips cannot be divided into blocks, and require cumbersome re-designation of deployment destinations when the usage scenario changes, leading to potential channel or group disappearance during deployment.
Innovation Solution
An improved audio signal processing apparatus that allows flexible designation of channel strips as deployment destinations by storing object-of-operation designation information, which allocates channels or groups to specific channel strips without preassigning them, enabling secure and flexible deployment without channel or group allocation to deploying channel strips, thus preventing unintended changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If channel strips are divided into blocks for deployment destination designation, then large-scale mixers can deploy channels efficiently, but small-scale mixers cannot be applied due to physical structural limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the operation panel into multiple regions, where each region can independently designate one or more channel strips as deployment destinations. This segmentation allows the system to adapt to different mixer scales by flexibly configuring region sizes and numbers, eliminating the need for fixed block divisions while maintaining efficient channel deployment capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic designation of deployment destinations through region-based configuration, allowing the system to adapt its structure based on usage scenarios. The region boundaries and channel strip assignments can be dynamically adjusted, enabling the same system to work effectively on both small-scale and large-scale mixers without physical structural constraints.
2Ease of operation
If blocks are fixedly preset as deployment destinations, then administrator settings are simple, but users cannot easily change deployment destinations when usage scenarios change
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-divides the operation panel into multiple regions and pre-configures each region with one or more channel strips as potential deployment destinations. This preliminary setup eliminates the need for users to individually re-designate each channel strip when usage scenarios change, as they can simply switch between pre-configured regions, significantly reducing reconfiguration time and effort.
Solution Approach 2:
Each region is designed to serve multiple functions by being able to designate different channel strips as deployment destinations based on the selected usage scenario. This multi-functionality allows the same region structure to accommodate various deployment needs without requiring physical reconfiguration or complex re-designation procedures.
3Productivity
If channel strips are designated as deployment destinations, then channels can be deployed efficiently, but existing channel or group allocations may be overwritten causing unintended changes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary checks to identify channel strips that are currently allocated to channels or groups before designating them as deployment destinations. When a deployment operation is initiated, the system automatically detects existing allocations and prevents deployment to those strips, thereby avoiding overwriting of existing data while maintaining efficient deployment capabilities to available strips.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback information about the current allocation status of channel strips before and during deployment operations. This feedback mechanism allows users to see which strips are available for deployment and which are occupied, preventing unintended overwriting while maintaining high deployment efficiency through clear status indication and automatic conflict detection.
Data Source
AI summary
A mixer includes a plurality of channel strips to which are variably allocated respective objects of operation, and a memory of the mixer stores layer data comprising information that, for each of the channel strips, designates a channel or a channel group as an object of operation of the channel strip, or designates the channel strip as a deploying channel strip for individually deploying thereto any one of the channels belonging to a given group. When objects of operation are to be allocated to the individual channel strips, no channel or group is allocated to each deploying channel strip, and a setting is made to the effect that the channel strip is to be used for a channel deploying purpose. In response to a deploying instruction of a given group, individual channels belonging to the given group are deployed to the deploying channel strips.