Video-song accompaniment apparatus for reproducing accompaniment sound of particular instrument and method therefor

摘要

A video-song accompaniment apparatus includes an accompaniment information memory storing accompaniment information of a song in a musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) format, a lyrics information memory storing lyrics information of the song, an accompaniment signal generator for generating an accompaniment signal according to the accompaniment information, a lyrics signal generator for generating a video character signal according to the lyrics information, a controller for providing the lyrics information to the lyrics signal generator and the accompaniment information to the accompaniment signal generator, respectively, to thereby generate the lyrics information in synchronization with the accompaniment information. The apparatus includes an instrument selector for input of instrument selection information to the controller. According to one aspect of the invention, the controller selectively outputs to the accompaniment signal generator only accompaniment information of the instrument selected by the instrument selection information, which is provided from the instrument selector, from among the accompaniment information read out from the accompaniment information memory. A method for generating accompaniment information for a single instrument is also described.