Patent attributes
A multi-track digital recording/reproducing apparatus for recording/reproducing multi-track digital audio data, comprises: a multi-track recorder that records/reproduces digital audio data to/from a plurality of recording tracks; a mixing bus that selectively inputs data from a plurality of mixer input channels and data reproduced by the multi-track recorder, mixes the input data, and outputs the mixed input data; a track assigner that assigns and records the mixed input data or data directly input from the plurality of mixer input channels to at least one of the plurality of recording tracks; and a quick recording setting device that selects a mixer input channel, assigns a direct output of the selected mixer input channel to a designated recording track, and releases a recording assignment of a unselected mixer input channel without changing all setting states.