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 ...

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 ...

You can enable autotune in Audacity by installing the GSnap plug-in. GSnap is a free Audacity plug-in that can help you autotune your audio files. GSnap can be used ...

There is nothing funny about an intruder entering a woman's bedroom. But when the story itself has a happy ending and then it falls into the hands of the Gregory Brothers and their Auto-Tune software, ...

In the prologue of futurist Ray Kurzweil’s 2005 book, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, he quotes inventor Nikola Tesla: “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through ...

Cher was itching for a hit. The year was 1998, nearly a decade since her last Top 10 single, “Just Like Jesse James.” The Goddess of Pop was no stranger to comebacks, though — she famously made them ...

American Idol” had a Beatles week, a Mariah Carey week, even a Dolly Parton week. But if the show really wants to be “current,” as judge Simon Cowell is fond of saying, it should have an Auto-Tune ...

(RNS) — According to the Prophet Isaiah, grass withers, flowers fade, but God’s word endures. In the age of social media, so do the mistakes of church musicians. Play the wrong chord, forget the words ...

John Lennon passed away 17 years before the invention of Auto-Tune in 1997, but if you’re curious what the late Beatles frontman and “Imagine” singer would have thought of using the technology in his ...

For her biggest hit, “Believe,” which turns 20 on Oct. 19, all the way to “Dancing Queen,” her new album of Abba covers that drops Friday, Cher has enlisted Mark Taylor as her go-to producer. “There’s ...