Remix apparatus and method, slice apparatus and method, and storage medium

Abstract

A remix apparatus and method and slice apparatus and method is provided, which are capable of generating new musical tone pattern data from previously generated musical tone pattern data in real time, and storage media storing programs for implementing these methods. Musical tone pattern data of a predetermined length stored in a flash memory or a RAM is divided into a plurality of musical tone piece data of a length smaller than the predetermined length, and location information indicative of locations in the flash memory where the musical tone piece data obtained by the division are stored is stored in the flash memory. When a user selects one of plural types of stored rearrangement information, the location information on the musical tone piece data is supplied such that the musical tone piece data are rearranged in an order indicated by the selected rearrangement information and the musical tone piece data are sequentially reproduced in an order indicated by the supplied location information, that is, the musical tone piece data are rearranged based on the location information which requires a small amount of data to be controlled. Therefore, new musical tone pattern data can be generated from previously generated musical tone pattern data in real time.