It makes me wonder how accustomed we've become to our pitch-corrected pop stars. Recording artists like Britney Spears and Li'l Wayne rarely approach a microphone these days without state-of-the-art ...
Learning to sing like Aretha Franklin isn't something you can do overnight. But over the past decade, recording studios have been fudging things a bit with software called Auto-Tune, which enables ...
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 ...
In 2009, Jay Z tried to single-handedly declare Auto-Tune uncool and kill it for good with “D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)” on the “Blueprint 3.” No dice. Auto-Tune survives, but may now have been dealt a ...
NAMM 2022: Antares’ Auto-Tune range now has a vocal EQ plugin - the only dynamic EQ to feature Auto-Tune pitch tracking technology, no less. Designed, as you’d expect, for EQing vocals, this can also ...
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 ...
Jermaine Dupri is calling out the double standards of the rise of artificial intelligence artists decades after Gayle King’s ...
It seems as if, in these waning weeks of our Music & Technology series, we've generated a contradiction. And as it has been so many times before, the resolution is -- wait for it -- Kanye West. On one ...
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 ...
Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Swamp Dogg has tried out plenty ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Jay-Z said Auto-Tune was dead on his 2009 single ‘DOA (Death of ...
When I was a kid in the 1990s, Mariah Carey released one of the most popular songs from her catalog, “Hero.” As a tiny aspiring “Star Search” contestant, I brought it into my first day of voice ...