Let's get this out the way now: T-Pain pioneered the creative use of Auto-Tune in Hip Hop when he treated the pitch correction software as an expressive instrument rather than just a corrective tool.

American Idol has already run eight seasons. Since its debut in 2002, watching non-singers belting out of tune has become an amusing addiction. When Karaoke was introduced in the 80's from Japan, it ...

We spend most of our days trying to be virtually perfect, so why should we care what singers really sound like? When we go to concerts, we don't bother looking at them. Instead, we hold up our cameras ...

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 ...

Gizmag has been following the development of the Antares Auto-Tune for Guitar technology with great interest since it was first teased back in May 2011. In January 2012, it was launched in two guitars ...

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 ...

Since hearing what Britney Spears' sounds real voice sounds like, it has been brought to light just what a wonder of a modern invention Auto-Tune is. It's a technology that defines our modern musical ...

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 ...

If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...

This is T-Pain singing like you've never heard him before. — -- In the mid-2000s, while Jay-Z was still officially in retirement and long before Kanye West had been reborn as Yeezus, a guy named ...