Smule is an American

United States

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 software and video game developer

Video game developer

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 and publisher headquartered in Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto, California

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. Smule develops interactive "sonic" applications for the iPhone

IPhone

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 and other technology platforms. The company's most profitable products are on Apple's App Store and include "Glee", I Am T-Pain, Ocarina, "Magic Piano", "Magic Fiddle", Sonic Lighter, Zephyr, and Leaf Trombone: World Stage

Leaf Trombone: World Stage

Leaf Trombone: World Stage is a massively multiplayer online music game for the Apple iOS, developed by Smule and released on April 15 2009 through the App Store. The game simulates a trombone based on a traditional Chinese leaf instrument, similar to a slide whistle...

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Smule is developing the new "sonic network", connecting users across the globe

Earth

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 through expressive audio. "Smule's Ocarina and Leaf Trombone have set the standard for iPhone

IPhone

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 applications, combining innovative uses of the hardware

Hardware

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 with compelling social experiences," says CEO

Chief executive officer

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 Jeff Smith.

Apps Developed

• Magic Fiddle
• Glee
• Magic Piano
• I Am T-Pain (a port of Auto-Tune
  Auto-Tune
  Auto-Tune is a proprietary audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies. Auto-Tune uses a phase vocoder to correct pitch in vocal and instrumental performances. It is used to disguise off-key inaccuracies and mistakes, and has allowed singers to perform apparently perfectly tuned vocal...
  
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• Leaf Trombone: World Stage
• Ocarina
• Zephyr
• Sonic Vox
• Sonic Lighter
• Sonic Boom (Discontinued)

Uses

In 2010 Lang Lang

Lang Lang (pianist)

Lang Lang , born June 14, 1982, in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, is a Chinese concert pianist, currently residing in New York, who has performed with leading orchestras in Europe, the United States and his native China. He is increasingly well known around the world for his concert performances,...

 pulled a surprise performance using the Magic Piano to perform Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee

Flight of the Bumblebee

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. Stephen Hough

Stephen Hough

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 discussed the app on Telegraph TV.