Tone processing apparatus and method

摘要

For at least one music piece, a storage section (30) stores tone data of each of a plurality of fragments segmented from the music piece and stores a first descriptor indicative of a musical character of each of the fragments in association with the fragment. Descriptor generation section (12) receives input data based on operation by a user and generates a second descriptor, indicative of a musical character, on the basis of the received input data. Determination section (14) determines similarity between the second descriptor and the first descriptor of each of the fragments. Selection section (16) selects the tone data of at least one fragment from the storage section (30) on the basis of a result of the similarity determination by the determination section. On the basis of the tone data of the selected at least one fragment, a data generation section generates tone data to be outputted.