Patent ID: 8464154

Claim:
A method of creating a digital recording of a musical work from a plurality of takes of different performances of the musical work, wherein each of said plurality of takes is comprised of three or more recordings of a same one of said performances, comprising the steps of: (a) accessing said plurality of takes; (b) displaying on a display device a representation of each of said plurality of takes; (c) displaying on said display device representations of each of said three or more recordings comprising each of said takes; (d) obtaining a reference recording from among said three or more recordings comprising each of said takes; (e) selecting at least one recording from each of said takes not containing said reference recording, thereby selecting a plurality of non-reference recordings; (f) calculating a similarity between said reference recording and said plurality of non-reference recordings; (g) using at least said calculated similarities between said reference recording and said plurality of non-reference recordings to time-align each of said plurality of takes with respect to each other on the display device; (h) choosing three or more clips from among said displayed plurality of time-aligned takes; (i) organizing said chosen three or more clips in time order, thereby creating three or more different recordings of said musical work from said chosen plurality of clips; (j) combining said three or more different recordings to produce a digital recording of the musical work; and, (k) performing said digital recording of said musical work for at least one listener.