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Apparently autotuning is causing a bit of a scandal?

p://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030825.gtsinging/BNStory/Technology/

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

autotuning on stage?!?!! and i've had to put up with being out of tune onstage all this time? why didn't someone tell me?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything seems to remind me of an episode of The Simpsons these days. This one reminds me of Bart in the boy band.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

exactly!!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

yvan eht nioj

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

autotuning in real time is harder than it sounds, and requires some skill from the singer to make it work. if you stray a bit too far off pitch, it will, for example, autotune you to the entirely wrong note.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

that would be hilarious. i'd like to see people use the autotune for evil

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

D.Y.F.L.W.D?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

It reminds me of the scandal which greeted synthesizers and drum machines. Underneath it all I wonder if there's a paranoid prejudice against electrical energy: synthetic electronic devices are not the real deal, they are subhuman, and they are inauthentic. They are taking our jobs! They are implacable, unfeeling, they lack a soul. The coming robot race will enslave us all if we allow this to continue! etc.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it's possibly also something to do with the depreciation of the value of "musical skills" (which is daft)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

*perception* of the depreciation...

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

More fucking Western Pythagorean 12-tone imperialistic bullshit

― dave q, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually saw a snippet of a performance from one of the crappy teen acts promoted by Disney (it may have been Nick Carter's little brother, come to think of it) where it was clear that the kid was using autotune - he had that "discrete jumps in pitch" effect, and the female he was singing with didn't.

Of course, *everyone* uses it in the studio nowadays, but it's a lot easier to disguise it there, since the engineer can leave in any glissandi, melismae, etc., while "manually" tuning the held notes.

― Greg, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

dave q do you like polvo?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the weird part of it is that it means we've placed a higher value on the song than the singer, that we're generally okay as a people with singers not only using autotuners, but often even lip-synching live. I just wish someone would tell the singers that, because so many of them think that we, as a people, love them, but really we only like the song or songs. Right, Alanis?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't wait until somebody hooks one of these up to Ornette Coleman's saxophone. It'd be like one of those robots in 50's sci-fi movies that go kerblooie when given a command they can't suss!

― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I just wish someone would tell the singers that, because so many of them think that we, as a people, love them, but really we only like the song or songs.

Wow, this makes it sound like it's all *their* idea.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 28 August 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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