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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2003
Shinya Koseki, Fukuroi, JP;
Haruki Uehara, Hamamatsu, JP;
Shigeru Muramatsu, Shyuchi-gun, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Abstract
A real-play sound provider is connected with a communication terminal via a network. The user operates the communication terminal to transmit musical tone files, which include tone pitches and tone-generation timings of designated musical tones, to the real-play sound provider, so that the real-play sound provider controls a prescribed musical instrument to play automatic performance based on musical tone files, thus creating real-play sound files. The real-play sound files are created in accordance with prescribed conditions suiting user's preferences and are stored in a storage device of the real-play sound provider. Then, the real-play sound files are transmitted to the communication terminal upon user's designation of an address (e.g., URL) as necessary. Thus, the communication terminal controls a sound reproduction unit to reproduce sounds of the prescribed musical instrument, which is not possessed and played by the user.