Patent ID: 7279628

Claim:
A system comprising one or more electronic music apparatus for generating a music tone signal according to play data, and an editing apparatus for editing setting information of each electronic music apparatus, wherein the electronic music apparatus comprises: a tone generating section that is settable by setting information to generate a music tone signal in accordance with play data; a memory section that is incorporated in the electronic music apparatus, and has an open memory area accessible from the editing apparatus for storing identification information capable of identifying the electronic music apparatus and for storing setting information specific to the electronic music apparatus, wherein the identification information is stored as read-only information, and wherein the setting information stored may be overwritten; an information transfer section that reads out the identification information from the open memory area in response to an access from the editing apparatus and sends the read identification information to the editing apparatus, and that receives setting information from the editing apparatus and writes the received setting information into the open memory area; and a setting section operative when the setting information is written into the open memory area by the information transfer section for applying the written setting information to the tone generating section to set the same, and wherein the editing apparatus comprises: a storage section that stores the setting information corresponding to each of one or more electronic musical apparatus in association with the identification information of each electronic music apparatus; an editing section that can edit the setting information of each electronic musical apparatus stored in the storage section; and a control section that accesses an electronic musical apparatus connected to the editing apparatus to read the identification information of said electronic music apparatus from the open memory area thereof, identifies said electronic music apparatus according to the read identification information and each identification information associated with the stored setting information of each electronic music apparatus, locates the setting information which is stored in the storage or edited by the editing section and which corresponds to the identified electronic musical apparatus, and access the identified electronic musical apparatus to write located setting information to the open memory area of the identified electronic music apparatus.