Music piece data composed of audio waveform data are stored in a memory.
Analysis section analyzes the music piece data stored in the memory to
determine sudden change points of sound condition in the music piece
data. Display device displays individual sound fragment data, obtained by
dividing the music piece data at the sudden change points, in a menu
format having the sound fragment data arranged therein in order of their
complexity. Through user's operation via an operation section, desired
sound fragment data is selected from the menu displayed on the display
device, and a time-axial position where the selected sound fragment data
is to be positioned is designated. New music piece data set is created by
each user-selected sound fragment data being positioned at a
user-designated time-axial position.