That was in fact the initial idea behind it and it was used like that for some time (pitch correction only) until Cher came along and started that stupid trend of deliberately misadjusting the plugin to make the voice sound super unnatural. I will never understand how that awful sound could become the norm and to me it still just sounds like someone fucked around with the autotune setup.
Autotune is just a "beauty mode" camera for your voice.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Nacktmull@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And so, as humanity reaches new peaks of digital audio fidelity, people decide to dumb down vocal audio quality.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
small44@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Depends if you talk about autotune for correction pitch or as a style like rappers do.
Mesa@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Ironically, autotune is more akin to pixelating an image.
Klear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A bit off-topic, but if you want to hear really good use of autotune, check out Lügen. It means “Lies”. Check out the translativon too - the autotune starts right at the moment the singer admits to lying compulsively, even to himself.
ProstheticBrain@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
kambusha@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I really dislike autotune, especially how it’s used by rappers. T-Pain used autotune a shit ton, and then one day I realised that this is the voice he has.
Why the hell is he using autotune when he has that voice!?
Plopp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He used it to deliberately sound different, for the sole purpose of standing out from the crowd to get attention. Which he (sadly) succeeded with.
Etterra@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“beauty”
ptz@dubvee.org 3 weeks ago
And if you crank it up enough, it becomes like a Snapchat filter for your voice.