Patent ID: 6184454
Filing Date: 2001-02-06
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
An information processing apparatus for processing mixed data, in which, at least, a tone color parameter relating to a tone color and an interval parameter relating to an interval are mixed, the information processing apparatus comprising:extracting means for extracting, from the mixed data, a chronologically earlier tone color parameter, a chronologically later tone color parameter and respective times corresponding to each tone color parameter;comparing means for comparing a time differential between a chronologically earlier tone color parameter and a chronologically later tone color parameter with a predetermined threshold time;storage means for storing the chronologically later tone color parameter onto a first memory which also stores the chronologically earlier tone color parameter or onto a second memory, based on a comparison result of the comparing means;reading means for reading the tone color parameter from the storage means in accordance with an input of a playback start position where the playback of the mixed data starts;creating means for creating time information indicating time to set the tone color parameter, read by the reading means, to an electronic apparatus that generates an audio signal based on the mixed data; andoutput means for outputting the tone color parameter, read by the reading means, together with the time information corresponding to the tone color parameter, and then the mixed data from the playback start position thereafter.