摘要 |
Accurate“Mixing”of a sound signal has hitherto required a recording studio environment. Currently, both professional music producers facing budgetary limitations and amateur music makers without access to such meet a difficulty in producing music which has been correctly“Mixed”and“Auditioned”. We therefore propose a“Mixing”and“Mix Audition”tool, which can use standard headphones as the method of reproducing the direct sound, together with a DSP system that can be used with a computer based music production system to simulate specific listening experiences. The present invention therefore provides an audio auditioning device comprising a sound input, a sound output, a digital signal processor, and a library of stored digital signal processor effects, wherein the digital signal processor is adapted to apply a chosen effect from the library to a sound signal provided to the device via the sound input and deliver this to the output, and the library includes a plurality of digital signal processor effects representing the effect on a sound signal of reproduction in different environments. The digital signal processor applies the chosen effect in real time. The effects can include a home stereo, a home multi channel cinema, a large cinema, a concert hall, a car interior, and a radio receiver, or the like. The audio auditioning device can be combined with a computing device which includes a stored sound signal, mixing software adapted to adjust the mix of the stored sound signal, and a sound output connected to the sound input of the audio auditioning device. |