Patent ID: 7271330

Claim:
A rendition style determination apparatus comprising: a performance information acquisition section that acquires tone performance information; a rendition style selector operable in real time by a user to select, with respect to the tone performance information acquired by said performance information acquisition section, a desired rendition style from among a plurality of rendition styles associated with a plurality of portions of tones; a rendition style determination section that, in response to rendition style selecting operation performed via said rendition style selector, determines a rendition style to be applied to each portion of a tone; an output section that outputs performance information designating a rendition style module corresponding to the rendition style determined by said rendition style determination section, the rendition style module defining a waveform characteristic to provide the rendition style corresponding thereto; and a rendition style synthesis section that generates a rendition style waveform on the basis of the performance information designating the rendition style module outputted by said output section, wherein individual portions of a tone having rendition style characteristics are generated in a sequentially combined form, in accordance with a time-serial combination of rendition style waveforms corresponding to rendition style modules outputted by said output section.