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 ...

If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...

Based on the vocal tuner from UA’s Topline Vocal Suite, the new “ultra-low-latency” plugin adds Elastic and Sustain controls and MIDI repitching When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

On The Vergecast: how a simple pitch-correction plugin became a dominant sound in music, and how the next technical revolution might follow its lead. On The Vergecast: how a simple pitch-correction ...

Once a solution for amateur, off-key singers on karaoke nights, Auto-Tune and other voice tuning software have progressed from the club to the recording studio but never beyond sounding artificial.

Linda Diaz and Arthur Buckner uncover how Auto-Tune became THE in-demand tool for studios. Thanks to artists like T-Pain, Cher, and Kanye West, Auto-Tune went from being an industry secret to an ...