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Coordinating and mixing vocals captured from geographically distributed performers

  • US 10,395,666 B2
  • Filed: 07/31/2017
  • Issued: 08/27/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • plural geographically-distributed portable computing devices, each having a respective display, microphone interface, and communications interface;

    a first one of the plural geographically-distributed portable computing devices configured to receive via its respective communications interface, a first vocal score temporally synchronizable with a backing track and with lyrics, and further configured to, responsive to a selection by a first user thereof, audibly render the backing track and concurrently present corresponding portions of the lyrics on its respective display in temporal correspondence the audible rendering;

    audio processing code executable on the first portable computing device to capture and perform a first pitch correction to a vocal performance of the first user in accord with the first vocal score to constitute a first-part vocal performance;

    a second one of the plural geographically-distributed portable computing devices configured to receive via its respective communications interface (i) a second backing track including the first-part vocal performance of the first user vocalist captured at the first portable computing device and (ii) a second vocal score temporally synchronizable with the second backing track and with the lyrics, and further configured to, responsive to a selection by a second user thereof, audibly render the second backing track and concurrently present corresponding portions of the lyrics on its respective display in temporal correspondence the audible rendering; and

    audio processing code executable on the second portable computing device to capture and perform a second pitch correction to a vocal performance of the second user in accord with the second vocal score to constitute a second-part vocal performance,wherein the second pitch correction includes pitch shifting the vocal performance of the second user to one of a vocal melody position and a harmony position determined based on a prominence of the second-part vocal performance in a coordinated vocal duet based on the first-part and second-part vocal performances.

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