Patent ID: 7750230

Claim:
An automatic rendition style determining apparatus comprising: a supply section that supplies performance event information in real time in accordance with a progression of a performance; a condition setting section that sets a rendition style determination condition including time information; a time measurement section that measures, on the basis of the performance event information supplied in real time by said supply section, a time length of a rest between at least two notes to be generated in succession; and a rendition style determination section that makes a comparison between the time information included in the rendition style determination condition set by said condition setting section and the time length measured by said time measurement section and, on the basis of the comparison, determines a rendition style that is to be applied to an attack portion of a current tone to be performed in real time immediately after the rest, wherein said rendition style determination section determines the rendition style by selecting any one of a normal rendition style, slur joint rendition style and tonguing rendition style, wherein the slur joint rendition style is a rendition style where at least two successive notes are interconnected by a slur with no intervening silent state and the tonguing rendition style is a rendition style where at least two successive notes are sounded with an instantaneous break therebetween.