Automatic music playing apparatus having plural tone generating channels separately assignable to the parts of a musical piece

摘要

The present invention provides an automatic music playing apparatus for generating musical tone signals according to music playing information. The apparatus is essentially composed of (a) a tone generating unit having a plurality of tone generating channels for generating musical tone signals in response to tone generation control information; (b) a channel number designation unit for separately designating a desired number of tone generating channels of the tone generating for each part of the musical; and (c) an assignment unit for assigning music playing information to at least one of the tone generating channels.