US Patent 10354631 Sound signal processing method and sound signal processing apparatus

A method for processing an input sound signal of singing voice, to obtain a sound signal with an impression different from the input sound signal, includes: selecting a genre from among a plurality of tune genres in accordance with a selection operation by a user, setting, to a first unit, a set of first parameters corresponding to the selected genre, displaying a first impression identifier corresponding to the selected genre for a first control of a first user parameter in the set of first parameters, changing the first user parameter in accordance with a change operation on the first control by the user, and strengthening, by the first unit, signal components within a particular frequency band of the sound signal, in accordance with the set of first parameters including the first user parameters.