In a recent social media post, T-Pain, a prominent figure in the music industry known for his distinctive use of auto-tune, addressed an old photo of Christina Aguilera wearing a controversial T-shirt ...

Chaka Khan thinks that if you need to use Auto-tune to hit your notes, you should get a job at the Post Office rather than in a recording studio. “There is some great stuff out there and there are ...

Let's get this out the way now: T-Pain pioneered the creative use of Auto-Tune in Hip Hop when he treated the pitch correction software as an expressive instrument rather than just a corrective tool.

Various decades have their musical signature, like the excessive use of synthesizers and hairspray in the 1980s pop music scene. Likewise, the early 2010s was marked by a fairly extreme use of ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More There are lots of music fans out there who aren’t happy about the ...

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 ...

There are few musical technologies that are as ubiquitous, maligned and misunderstood as Antares’ Auto-Tune. What was conceived in 1997 as a discrete tool for cleaning up vocals and optimizing the ...

Most people with an internet connection have seen the Gregory Brothers' auto-tuned brilliance on YouTube. For those who haven't, David Itsikoff explains what all the fuss is about with a New York ...

Yes, auto-tune can create a desired effect when singing live, but what happens when you suddenly need to scold security mid-song? That's what happened to The 1975's Matt Healy, who ended up being the ...

It's Carl Sagan like you've never heard him: his digitized, remixed voice sounds more like something emanating from a radio tuned to a pop music station than from a TV playing a public television ...

With a new album full of instant swing standards and harmonies that stop you cold, the duo’s Los Angeles show reminded audiences what happens when exceptional musicians make sophistication look easy.

If you turn around and see yourself surrounded by nearly every make and model of cars while stuck in traffic on a Valley freeway, that’s a problem. Cram just as many vehicles under the roof of the ...