US 11,670,270 B2
Social music system and method with continuous, real-time pitch correction of vocal performance and dry vocal capture for subsequent re-rendering based on selectively applicable vocal effect(s) schedule(s)
Jeannie Yang, San Francisco, CA (US); Nicholas M. Kruge, San Francisco, CA (US); Gregory C. Thompson, San Francisco, CA (US); and Perry R. Cook, Jacksonville, OR (US)
Assigned to Smule, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by SMULE, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/249,113.
Application 17/249,113 is a continuation of application No. 16/296,391, filed on Mar. 8, 2019, granted, now 10,930,256.
Application 16/296,391 is a continuation of application No. 15/463,878, filed on Mar. 20, 2017, granted, now 10,229,662, issued on Mar. 12, 2019.
Application 15/463,878 is a continuation of application No. 13/960,564, filed on Aug. 6, 2013, granted, now 9,601,127, issued on Mar. 21, 2017.
Application 13/960,564 is a continuation in part of application No. 13/085,414, filed on Apr. 12, 2011, granted, now 8,983,829, issued on Mar. 17, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/680,652, filed on Aug. 7, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/323,348, filed on Apr. 12, 2010.
Prior Publication US 2021/0248985 A1, Aug. 12, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G10H 1/36 (2006.01); G10H 1/10 (2006.01); G10L 21/013 (2013.01)
CPC G10H 1/366 (2013.01) [G10L 21/013 (2013.01); G10H 2210/066 (2013.01); G10H 2210/331 (2013.01); G10H 2220/096 (2013.01); G10H 2240/251 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
retrieving via a communications interface of a portable computing device, a vocal score temporally synchronized with a corresponding backing track and lyrics;
capturing, via a microphone interface of the portable computing device, and in correspondence with the backing track, a first vocal performance of a user; transmitting, via the communications interface, an open call indication for soliciting, from a second vocalist, a second vocal performance to be mixed for audible rendering with the first vocal performance; and
providing a mix to one of the user and the second vocalist by selecting, based on to whom the mix is provided, the mix from alternative mixes each having a different prominent vocal performance.