Smule, Inc.

Robert Hamilton

Jeffrey Christopher Smith

Jeannie Yang

Ran Xie

Charles Espeleta

Jonathan Moody

Oscar Corral

Ari Lazier

Amanda Chaudhary

Ge Wang

Nick Kruge

Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Notwithstanding practical limitations imposed by mobile device platforms and applications, truly captivating musical instruments may be synthesized in ways that allow musically expressive performances to be captured and rendered in real-time. In some cases, synthetic musical instruments can provide a game, grading or instructional mode in which one or more qualities of a user's performance are assessed relative to a musical score. By constantly adapting to such modes to actual performance characteristics and, in some cases, to the level of a given user musician's skill, user interactions with synthetic musical instruments can be made more engaging and may capture user interest and economic opportunities (e.g., for in-app purchase and/or social networking) over generally longer periods of time.

Synthetic musical instrument with performance- and/or skill-adaptive score tempo

Synthetic musical instrument with performance-and/or skill-adaptive score tempo

A synthetic multi-string musical instrument captures a stream of expressive gestures indicated on a multi-touch sensitive display for note/chord soundings and associated performance effects and embellishments. Visual cues in accord with a musical score may be revealed/advanced at a current performance tempo, but it is the user's gestures that actually drive the audible performance rendering via digital synthesis. Opportunities for user expression (or variance from score) include onset and duration of note soundings, tempo changes, as well as uncued string bend effects, vibrato, etc. Gesturing mechanism are provide to allow user musicians to sound chords without having to register precisely accurate multi-touch screen contacts. This can be especially helpful for mobile phone, media player and game controller embodiments, where there is generally limited real-estate to display six (6) or more strings, and user fingers are generally too fat to precisely contact such strings.

Synthetic multi-string musical instrument with score coded performance effect cues and/or chord sounding gesture capture

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Robert Hamilton