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 ...

We pride ourselves at The FADER on scouring the globe to introduce you to some of the most left-field music around. But in our monthly column Popping Off, Aimee Cliff takes the temperature of ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More There are lots of music fans out there who aren’t happy about the ...

T-Pain (real name: Faheem Najm) has established himself as the reigning master of Auto-Tune, the software that more and more hip-hop artists are using to sound like androids. Now this Grammy-winning ...

Learning to sing like Aretha Franklin isn't something you can do overnight. But over the past decade, recording studios have been fudging things a bit with software called Auto-Tune, which enables ...

Ed Ledsham explores the history of auto-tune... (Listen to Auto-tune Anthems on Spotify). "Auto-Tune is great for fixing vocals, but we use Auto-Tune in a way it wasn't designed to work. A lot of ...

It happened exactly 36 seconds into the song—a glimpse of the shape of pop to come, a feel of the fabric of the future we now inhabit. The phrase “I can’t break through” turned crystalline, like the ...