Patent ID: 7019205

Claim:
An entertainment system comprising: an entertainment apparatus for executing various programs; at least one manual controller for entering control requests from a user into said entertainment apparatus; music editing means for assigning an arbitrary sound pattern selected from a plurality of sound patterns each composed of a combination of sounds to at least one track based on a control input from said manual controller; and sound presentation trial processing means for outputting said sound pattern assigned to said track when a control input from said manual controller satisfies a predetermined condition; wherein said music editing means displays said plurality of sound patterns as respective symbol images on said display unit, and, responsive to a control input from said manual controller to select at least one track displayed on said display unit and a control input from said manual controller to select said symbol images, registers sound patterns corresponding to the symbol images in the selected track; wherein said music editing means comprises: sound pattern outputting means for outputting a sound of the selected sound pattern via a speaker; wherein said sound pattern outputting means comprises: means for outputting the selected sound pattern depending on an array of light spots which are turned on, of a string of light spots disposed in said selected track.