Terms
Effective date: October 28, 2026
Last updated: October 28, 2026
Welcome to Sound Patch. These Terms of Service ("Terms") cover your use of the Sound Patch website at thesoundpatch.com and the app at app.thesoundpatch.com (together, the "Service"). The Service is provided by Melvin Darrell, a sole proprietor based in Georgia, USA ("Sound Patch", "we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the Service.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data and is part of these Terms.
1. Eligibility
You must be at least 16 years old, or the age of digital consent where you live if that is higher, to use Sound Patch. By using the Service you confirm that you meet this requirement and can legally agree to these Terms.
2. Your account
You're responsible for your account and for keeping your login details secure. Give accurate information when you sign up and keep it up to date. If you think someone else has accessed your account, email us right away at mel@melvindarrell.com.
3. What Sound Patch is for
Sound Patch is a tool for studying recorded music and building a library of the patterns you find. You listen to music you have lawful access to, and you record your own observations about it: chord charts in number notation, arrangement notes, rhythms, and written analysis.
Sound Patch does not host, stream, store or distribute recordings. There is no audio upload. What you store here is your own written and structured notes about music, not the music itself.
You're responsible for having lawful access to anything you study, and for making sure your use of it is allowed where you live.
4. Subscriptions and billing
Paid plans. Creating new work in Sound Patch requires a paid membership. Current prices are shown on our website and at checkout. Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.
What membership covers. Reading your library is always available. Creating new work (new analyses, charts, rhythms, captures and AI requests) requires an active membership.
If your membership ends. You keep read access to everything you've made, and you can still delete it. You can't create new work until you rejoin. Nothing of yours is deleted because a membership ended.
Auto-renewal. Memberships renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless you cancel first. You can cancel any time from Settings, using "Manage billing." Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current period, and you keep access until then.
Founding pricing. The first 50 members can join at a founding discount: $10/month or $99/year for their first year, off the standard price of $15/month or $129/year. After your first year, your membership renews at the standard price shown at checkout. The founding discount covers your first year only and isn't restored if you cancel and rejoin.
Price changes. We may change the standard price for future billing periods. We'll email you at least 30 days before a change affects your membership, and you can cancel before it takes effect. Moving from the founding discount to the standard price after your first year is part of the offer you accept at checkout, not a price change.
Taxes. Prices may not include applicable taxes, which are shown at checkout where relevant.
5. Refunds
If you're new to Sound Patch, you can ask for a full refund within 14 days of your first payment. Email mel@melvindarrell.com from the address on your account and we'll refund you in full. No hoops. Refunds go back to your original payment method through Stripe and your membership ends when the refund is issued.
After the first 14 days, payments are not refundable, but you can cancel at any time to stop future charges. Our Refund Policy has the details.
Nothing in this section limits any refund or cancellation rights you have by law as a consumer where you live.
6. Your content
Sound Patch lets you create charts, arrangement timelines, rhythms, notes, reflections and analyses ("Your Content").
You own Your Content. We claim no ownership of it. You give us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, store, process and display Your Content only to run the Service for you, and as described in our Privacy Policy. This license ends when Your Content is deleted.
AI training. We do not use Your Content to train AI models, and our AI provider, Lovable, states that the data of people using apps built on its platform is not used to train its models. The Privacy Policy explains how AI processing works.
Your responsibilities. You're responsible for Your Content and must have the rights you need to create it.
7. AI features
Sound Patch uses AI to find patterns in your notes, write Style Profiles, and suggest ideas. AI output can be wrong, incomplete or not a fit for you. It's for your own creative use only and is not professional advice of any kind. You're responsible for what you do with it.
Daily limits. AI features have daily limits so the Service stays fast and available for everyone. For example, you can request up to 30 new ideas from the Generator each day. Limits reset every day at midnight UTC. We may change these limits; if we lower them in a big way, we'll tell you first.
8. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use the Service unlawfully or in breach of any law
- Try to store audio recordings or other media you don't have the right to use
- Try to get unauthorized access to the Service, other members' accounts or our systems, or disrupt the Service
- Reverse engineer or try to extract the Service's source code, except where the law allows it despite this restriction
- Resell, sublicense or provide the Service to others without our written permission
- Use automated tools to scrape or bulk-extract data from the Service
- Get around usage limits, paywalls or access controls
We may suspend or end access for breaches of this section.
9. Communications
We'll send you emails and in-app messages about your account and the Service, such as receipts, security notices, renewal reminders and changes to these Terms. These are part of the Service while you have an account.
We may also send product updates and promotional emails. You can opt out any time with the unsubscribe link. Where the law requires it, we'll only send promotional email with your consent.
10. Our intellectual property
The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics and branding, is owned by or licensed to us. We give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your personal or professional creative work under these Terms. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
11. Feedback
If you send us ideas or suggestions about the Service, you allow us to use them without restriction or payment. This doesn't apply to Your Content.
12. Ending your use
You can stop using the Service at any time. To delete your account and its data, email mel@melvindarrell.com. We may suspend or end access if you seriously breach these Terms, if the law requires it, or if we shut the Service down. If we shut it down, we'll give reasonable notice and refund the unused part of any period you've already paid for.
Sections that by their nature should continue after your use ends, including 6, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15, continue.
13. Disclaimers
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don't guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, that data will never be lost (keep your own copies of anything important), or that you'll reach any particular creative or learning outcome.
14. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows: (a) we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill; and (b) our total liability for all claims about the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event that caused the claim, or USD 100 if you paid nothing.
Nothing here excludes or limits liability that can't be excluded by law, and nothing affects your rights as a consumer.
15. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, USA, and disputes will be handled in the courts of the State of Georgia, USA. If you're a consumer, you keep any protection the consumer laws where you live give you, including any right to bring a claim in your local courts.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. For important changes, we'll tell you by email or in the app at least 14 days before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after that, you accept the updated Terms. If you don't agree, you can cancel before they take effect.
17. General
These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. If any part can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce a part, that isn't a waiver. You may not transfer these Terms without our consent. We may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, and we'll tell you if we do.
18. Contact
Melvin Darrell