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Monday 4 April 2011

Inferior Vocalists Celebrate With an Autotune Plugin

By Andy Ainsworth


Are you a dreadful lead singer with dreams of making it as a pop star? Want to get around your dearth of ability? Now you can. Ever question why renowned singers sound cool on their records but atrocious during a live show. It is as basic as a little concept called autotune. An autotune plugin can assist any person obtain musical greatness-even if your skills are not up to par.

Here is what an autotune plugin can do: Perfects the pitch of sung or instrumental performances Corrects mistakes or inaccuracies so you do not have to vocalize in tune Fixes timing difficulty in case you fluff a word or a beat Distorts the individual voice to cause you sound better than you really are Ability to instantaneously switch amongst the time-shifted audio soundtrack and the initial soundtrack Will record MIDI note data that is routed to it and can even register this on the Pitch Graph. Users can therefore make annotations about changes in real-time.

It is easy for anyone to use, from the professionals to the amateurs. However, the uncertainty remains; is an autotune plugin only a tool for doctoring up shoddy music? Well, yes and no. While you can draw on autotune for a variety of "aboveboard" reasons- like you recorded a just about picture perfect track with one or two mistakes-it can also be used to completely skew an original soundtrack.

The inaugural major hit song that this software was used for was Cher's "Believe." After that, additional artists followed suit, realizing their dreams of fooling the public into thinking bad singers were good.

Other artists, however, have taken a standpoint in opposition to it. Country singers such as Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, and Loretta Lynn have refused to draw on AutoTune plugin technology. At the Grammy Awards in 2009, Death Cab for Cutie appeared wearing decorations that protested the use of AutoTune. Additionally, singer-songwriter Allison Moorer released a record in 2002 that shed light on the controversy. The record came with a sticky label that said, "Absolutely no vocal tuning or pitch modification was used in the making of this recording."

One music writer went as far as to declare the autotune plugin was a "distinctively foreboding creation." For bad and good singers similarly, one thing is irrefutable: No need for gargling brine, practicing your pitch, and resting your pipes. Thanks autotune!




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