1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a musical apparatus which automatically repeats a certain specified tune sequence of a musical tune or automatically starts playing from a specified point in a musical tune sequence.
2. Technical Background
As is well known, there are many musical apparatuses which can automatically play a tune according to specified performance data. Among such apparatuses, there are some which can play all or part of the tune repeatedly, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-open Publication No. Sho 58-42093 discloses an apparatus which permits any part of a tune to be specified, and can repeatedly replay only the specified part of the tune.
In the apparatus shown in the above publication, the specified part is simply read out repeatedly, and there is no creativity in the manner of repetition, and the part of the musical tune is simply repeated many times over and over.
On the other hand, there is an automatic performance apparatus known to memorize a plurality of pattern data, and the order of playing the pattern data can be preprogrammed. However, this type of apparatus (pattern sequencer) could not repeatedly play any part of a tune, or start from any point in a tune.