Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a plurality of microphones having directivity to output collected sound; a switch portion to switch a direction of directivity of each of the plurality of microphones to one of a plurality of predetermined direction patterns; a detection portion to detect a direction pattern switched by the switch portion among the plurality of direction patterns; a recording portion to execute plural kinds of processing on sound collected by the plurality of microphones and to record the processed sound; a setting portion to set parameters to be used by the recording portion to execute the plural kinds of processing; and a storage portion to store the parameters to be used by the recording portion to execute the plural kinds of processing, separately for each of the plural kinds of processing, in association with each of the plurality of direction patterns.

Abstract: A plurality of decoding programs respectively corresponding to each of a plurality of compression formats is stored in a memory card 18 attached to a slot 16. A CPU 20 determines whether or not a decoding program corresponding to a compression format of music data to be reproduced exists in a RAM 22a, and transfers the decoding program from the memory card 18 to the RAM 22a according to the determination result. That is, when the decoding program corresponding to the compression format of the music data to be reproduced exists in the RAM 22a, the same decoding program is not transferred. The music data is decoded by a DSP 22 according to the decoding program stored in the RAM 22a.