Patent ID: 7982120

Claim:
A performance apparatus comprising: a storage unit adapted to store a plurality of performance data; a selection unit adapted to select any of the plurality of performance data stored in said storage unit; a first reproduction unit adapted to reproduce performance data selected by said selection unit, as non-MIDI audio-data; a control unit adapted to control said first reproduction unit such that preceding performance data being reproduced by said first reproduction unit is changed over to subsequent performance data selected by said selection unit and performance data reproduction is continuously carried out; a musical tone characteristic acquisition unit adapted to acquire a musical tone characteristic of at least one of the preceding performance data and the subsequent performance data; a generation unit adapted, based on the musical tone characteristic acquired by said musical tone characteristic acquisition unit, to generate stopgap performance data for connecting between the preceding performance data and the subsequent performance data; and a second reproduction unit adapted to reproduce the stopgap performance data generated by said generation unit, as MIDI data, wherein said control unit is adapted to control said second reproduction unit such that the stopgap performance data of MIDI data is inserted between the preceding performance data of non-MIDI audio-data and the subsequent performance data of non-MIDI audio-data and is reproduced.