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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
May. 22, 2014
Smule, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Nick Kruge, San Francisco, CA (US);
Smule, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Despite 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. Visual cues presented on a multi-touch sensitive display provide the user with temporally sequenced string excitation cues. Note or chord soundings are indicated by user gestures (e.g., pluck-type gestures, strum-type gestures, chord selections, etc.) captured at the multi-touch sensitive display. Those captured gestures, rather than simply the score itself, are used as inputs to a digital synthesis of the musical instrument.