The first thing I saw on Twitter this morning was a video of a cat letting out sweet, little T-Pain yowls. Joaquin Baldwin, a Disney animation artist, had auto-tuned his cat Elton and then made a ...
Ed Ledsham explores the history of auto-tune... (Listen to Auto-tune Anthems on Spotify). "Auto-Tune is great for fixing vocals, but we use Auto-Tune in a way it wasn't designed to work. A lot of ...
“I couldn’t believe it… I didn’t think anyone in their right mind would use it that way.” Auto-Tune is not just the inhuman warbling debuted by Cher in 1998. This staple of today’s pop music is much ...
Auto-Tune can serve as an additive or a crutch, but it has opened the floodgates for a relentless wave of untalented goons in the mainstream. The constant Auto-Tuning of vocals begets formulated, ...
It happened exactly 36 seconds into the song—a glimpse of the shape of pop to come, a feel of the fabric of the future we now inhabit. The phrase “I can’t break through” turned crystalline, like the ...
Before inventing Auto-Tune, the software that would change the music industry forever, Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist in the oil industry. Working for Exxon Production Research and then ...
Since Antares Audio Technologies first introduced its Auto-Tune vocal pitch correction technology in the late 1990s, musicians and fans alike have been somewhat divided about its use. Some artists ...
If all you want from a vocal pedal is the classic T-Pain style heavy Auto-Tune sound, then look no further than the VX5. Sadly, however, this device cannot compete as an all-in-one live vocal solution ...
Auto-tuning, the practice of digitally “repairing” off-key vocal tracks, is more visibly prominent than ever. But it’s even more ubiquitous than people realize, and some musicians and fans aren’t ...
"In the nebula of my soul." Okay, I'm not great. "But now I find her heart is like a big black hole." All right, I'm terrible. But here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, ...