Super Mario Boards

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Ray Trace

Yeah I read some synthesizer history on Wikipedia and it too also suffered hostility and suspicion when it was new, especially when "synthesizer player" became a legit position, plus it also led to major changes in music industry jobs. The Moog synthesizer itself was even banned in commercial work and attempts to ban other synthesizers were common. And yeah, it too suffered similar arguments of "all you had to do was push a button that said 'Jascha Heifetz' and out would come the most fantastic violin player", mirroring AI art.

LeftyGreenMario

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Toadettefan

Um…personally, I don't like autotune except when it's Cher's Believe. Nothing else autotune is good, including when they used it in the Beauty and The Beast remake with Belle's actress, as well as when they used it for Annie in the 2014 version of the movie of the same name.

Ray Trace

Autotune does have its place but yeah sometimes I don't like it when it's not used in a way I like it.

BTW I don't meant this is in a sarcastic way. I sometimes don't like autotune being misused but that's not really autotune's fault.

LeftyGreenMario

i appreciate autotune more when people see it as a tool to augment their work. it's best when it's not used as a replacement for talent. see wikipedia

Auto-Tune - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Despite its negative reputation, some critics have argued that Auto-Tune opens up new possibilities in pop music, especially in hip-hop and R&B. Instead of using it as a correction tool for poor vocals—its originally designed purpose—some musicians intentionally use the technology to mediate and augment their artistic expression. When French house duo Daft Punk was questioned about their use of Auto-Tune in their single "One More Time", Thomas Bangalter replied by saying, "A lot of people complain about musicians using Auto-Tune. It reminds me of the late '70s when musicians in France tried to ban the synthesizer... What they didn't see was that you could use those tools in a new way instead of just for replacing the instruments that came before."[54]

T-Pain, the R&B singer and rapper who reintroduced the use of Auto-Tune as a vocal effect in pop music with his album Rappa Ternt Sanga in 2005, said "My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music. There was a time when people had seven-minute songs and five minutes of them were just straight instrumental. ... I got a lot of influence from [the '60s era] and I thought I might as well just turn my voice into a saxophone."[55] Following in T-Pain's footsteps, Lil Wayne experimented with Auto-Tune between his albums Tha Carter II and Tha Carter III. At the time, he was heavily addicted to promethazine codeine, and some critics see Auto-Tune as a musical expression of Wayne's loneliness and depression.[56] Mark Anthony Neal wrote that Lil Wayne's vocal uniqueness, his "slurs, blurs, bleeps and blushes of his vocals, index some variety of trauma."[57] And Kevin Driscoll asks, "Is Auto-Tune not the wah pedal of today's black pop? Before he transformed himself into T-Wayne on "Lollipop", Wayne's pop presence was limited to guest verses and unauthorized freestyles. In the same way that Miles equipped Hendrix to stay pop-relevant, Wayne's flirtation with the VST plugin du jour brought him updial from JAMN 94.5 to KISS 108."[58]