autotune

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autotune

(ˈɔːtəʊˌtjuːn)
n
(Electronics) a software package that automatically manipulates a recording of a vocal track until it is in tune regardless of whether or not the original performance was in tune
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Sure, people were going to jump down Macca's throat for experimenting with auto-tune and embracing a divisive modern soundscape, but the track felt reminiscent of Fab Four experimentation.
He covers digital technologies, democratization, and cultural production; affordance, digital audio workstations, and musical creativity; digital technology and techniques in the creative process; creativity as discourse/creativity as experience in electronic dance music and electronica; and digital aesthetics: cyber genres, Auto-Tune, and digital perfectionism.
Auburn Audio Technologies, dba Antares Audio Technologies, developed and markets the proprietary audio processor Auto-Tune. Auto-Tune is used throughout the music and performance industry to measure and alter pitch in vocal and instrumental music.
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The album's opener Nikes teases the listener, giving the first glimpse of Ocean after four years through auto-tune as he pokes fun at overconsumption and pays tribute to Trayvon Martin, and Beyonce is relegated to background noise - but brilliant background noise at that - on Pink + White.
And just when you're ready to dismiss Lukach as a clown who would sacrifice everything (even his talent) for another great punchline, he comes out with a song like "Night Falls Again," a beautiful and slow mash-up of trip hop and auto-tune, and more puns and small lyrical gems like: I follow the religion of Moses / Of striking water out of rocks.
Hear about encounters with music icons, her view on auto-tune and the TV talent shows finding the next stars of the charts.
(11) Viewer indignation also resulted in a spokesperson for The X Factor acknowledging that the episode was prerecorded and that Auto-Tune had been applied in postproduction on some vocals due to the audible interference caused by the use of several microphones during the filming of the episode.
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