Patent ID: 7642447

Claim:
An electronic musical instrument, comprising: storage means for storing performance data that comprises at least one composition, the performance data of at least one composition comprising at least one tick and a tempo; musical tone generation means for generating musical tone data in conformance with the performance data; automatic performance means for reading out the performance data stored in the storage means at a time in conformance with the time information and for supplying the performance data to the tone generation means; communications means for communicating with external devices, input means for inputting control data, said control data requesting the musical tone data via the communications means from a media on which the musical tone data have been stored such that the music tone data are reproduced, said music tone data sampled at a specified sampling frequency; control means for controlling the musical tone generation means in conformance with the control data input in the input means, in accordance with the performance data stored in the storage means, and by means of the automatic performance means, in the generation of the musical tone data; and performance time means for generating the performance time of the at least one composition using the tempo and a total number of ticks; transmission means for transmitting the musical tone data generated by the musical tone generation means and the performance time via the communications means; wherein the musical tone data transmitted is in a data format consistent with a digital audio data format of musical tone data transmitted from a removable media drive, such that the removable media drive is emulated by the electronic musical instrument.