Awful vocalists Celebrate With an Autotune Plugin

By Abigail Armstrong


Are you an awful songster with ideas of making it as a pop superstar? Want to circumvent your absence of virtuosity? Now you can. Ever question why celebrated singers sound excellent on their records but nasty throughout a live performance. It is as ingenuous as a little creation 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 sing in tune Fixes timing troubles in case you skip a word or a beat Distorts the human tone of voice to make you sound greater than you truly are Ability to switch between the time-shifted audio recording and the first recording Will record MIDI note information that is routed to it and can even register this on the Pitch Graph. Users can therefore make notes about changes in real-time.

It is straightforward for anybody to use, from the professionals to the amateurs. However, the issue remains: Is the plugin purely a utensil for doctoring up shoddy music? Well, yes and no. While you can draw on it for various "genuine" reasons- like you recorded a almost perfect track with one or two mistakes-it can also be used to thoroughly skew an original recording.

The inaugural major hit tune this application was used on was Cher's "Believe." After that, additional bands followed suit, realizing their ideas of tricking the public into believing inferior singers were good.

Other bands, however, have taken a stance against it. Country singers such as Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, and Loretta Lynn have refused to employ these kinds of tools. At the Grammy Awards in 2009, Death Cab for Cutie appeared wearing ribbons that protested the use of AutoTune. Additionally, singer-songwriter Allison Moorer released an album in 2002 that shed light on the row. The album came with a sticky label that said "Absolutely no vocal tweaking or pitch correction was used in the making of this album."

One music reviewer went as far as to express the autotune plugin was a "particularly foreboding creation." For bad and good singers alike, one thing is evident: No need for gargling, practicing your pitch, and resting your pipes. Thanks autotune!




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