Automatic play apparatus and function expansion device

An automatic play apparatus for recording and reproducing a series of music performance data, said automatic play apparatus including a plurality of queuing means and a memory area, said plurality of queuing means comprising respectively:

• memorizing means for memorizing temporarily a part of said series of music performance data in said memory area during said series of processing, and
• transferring means for transferring an argument address to said temporarily memorized music performance data in said memory area to a function expansion module so that said function expansion module can read out said temporarily memorized music performance data from said memory area and write newly established music performance transferred data in said memory area.

A function expansion device applied to an automatic play apparatus for recording and reproducing a series of music performance data, said device comprising:

• receiving means for receiving an argument address to a part of said music performance data memorized temporarily in a memory area during said series of processing,
• data reading means for reading out said memorized music performance data from said memory area based on said argument address.

A function expansion device applied to an automatic play apparatus for recording and reproducing a series of music performance data, said device comprising:

• receiving means for receiving an argument address to a part of said music performance data memorized temporarily in a memory area during said series of processing,
• data reading and writing means for reading out said memorized music performance data from said memory area and for writing newly established music performance data in said memory area based on said argument address.

A computer readable program storage medium storing a queue program applied to an automatic play apparatus for recording and reproducing a series of music performance data, said automatic play apparatus including a memory, said queue program containing executable instructions for causing a computer to perform the steps of:

• memorizing temporarily a part of said series of music performance data in said memory during said series of processing, and
• transferring an argument address to said temporarily memorized music performance data in said memory area to a function expansion module so that said function expansion module can read out said temporarily memorized music performance data from said memory area and write newly established music performance data in said memory area.

A computer readable program storage medium storing a function expansion program applied to an automatic play apparatus for recording and reproducing a series of music performance data, said function expansion program containing executable instructions for causing a computer to perform the steps of:

• receiving an argument address to a part of said music performance data memorized temporarily in a memory area during said series of processing,
• reading out said memorized music performance data from said memory area based on said argument address.

A computer readable program storage medium storing a function expansion program applied to an automatic play apparatus for recording and reproducing a series of music performance data, said function expansion program containing executable instructions for causing a computer to perform the steps of:

• receiving an argument address to a part of said music performance data memorized temporarily in a memory area during said series of processing,
• reading out said memorized music performance data from said memory area based on said argument address,
• writing newly established music performance data in said memory area based on said argument address.