Apparatus and method for processing ringtone

An apparatus for processing a ring tone, comprising:

• a ring tone parser for parsing musical score data from inputted ring tone contents;
• a sequencer for aligning the parsed musical score data in order of playback duration of the musical score data;
• a sound source where a plurality of sound source samples are stored;
• a sound source parsing for parsing position data of the sound source samples corresponding to the musical score data and for matching the position data with the musical score data;
• a sound source play information database for storing the position data of the sound source samples and the musical score data, which are matched with each other;
• a control logic unit for receiving the musical score data aligned by the sequencer, for requesting the position data of the sound source samples from the sound source play information database, and for sequentially outputting the position data of the sound source samples;
• and
• a ring tone synthesizer for reading sound source samples corresponding to the position data of the sound source samples from the sound source play information database and for generating musical sounds corresponding to the musical score data;
• wherein the sound source parser parses the position data of the sound source sample corresponding to the musical score data and stores the parsed position data in the sound source play information database, and
• wherein the sound source play information database stores musical scale data of the ring tone contents and timbre data corresponding to the musical scale data, which are matched with the position data of the sound source samples, wherein the timbre data includes a sound tag or name, a ring tone music tag or name.