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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2000
Tetsuo Nishimoto, Hamamatsu, JP;
Masahiro Kakishita, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yutaka Tohgi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Toru Kitayama, Hamamatsu, JP;
Toshiyuki Iwamoto, Hamamatsu, JP;
Norio Suzuki, Hamamatsu, JP;
Akane Iyatomi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Akira Yamauchi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
There are provided a performance data generating apparatus and method which is capable of automatically converting original performance data providing an expressionless performance into performance data that enable a variety of musically excellent performances, by means of a novel expression adding converter using various modularized rules and procedures to add expressions based on temporal changes such as tempo and timing, as well as a storage medium that stores a program for executing the method. Performance data are supplied, characteristic information is obtained from the supplied performance data, generating method information is stored which corresponds to predetermined characteristic information and representative of at least one method of generating musical tone control information, generating method information corresponding to the obtained characteristic information is obtained from the stored generating method information, the musical tone control information from the obtained characteristic information and generating method information corresponding to the obtained characteristic information is obtained, and the generated musical tone control information is added to the supplied performance data.