"social networking site Twitter reaches a million ""followers"". T-Pain initially denied that Jay-Z's song ""D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)"" would put him off from using Auto-Tune, the vocal pitch correcting technology he has frequently used throughout his previous work, he later confirmed that there would be a higher presence of Auto-Tune on the album, and later revealed he had stopped using the technology permanently and would rather use his own new version of it, called the T-Pain Effect, after leaving Antares Audio Technologies and signing with iZotope and using his very own ""I Am T-Pain"" microphone. In June 2010, T-Pain confirmed"
"electronic, vocoder-like voice effect. A notable example of Auto-Tune-based pitch correction is the Cher effect, so named because producer Mark Taylor originated the effect in her 1998 hit song ""Believe"". The effect has been used by composer John Boswell for his Symphony of Science and Symphony of Bang Goes The Theory (a BBC science show) mash-ups. American Rapper T-Pain is known for his skillful use of this effect. One criticism of pitch correction is that it allows recording engineers to create a perfectly in-tune performance from a vocalist who is otherwise not skilled enough to give one, adding a degree"
"vocals. The use of Auto-Tune as a vocal effect was bolstered in the late 2000s by hip hop/R&B recording artist T-Pain who elaborated on the effect and made active use of Auto-Tune in his songs. He cites new jack swing producer Teddy Riley and funk artist Roger Troutman's use of the Talk Box as inspirations for his own use of Auto-Tune. T-Pain became so associated with Auto-Tune that he had an iPhone App named after him that simulated the effect, called ""I Am T-Pain"". Eventually dubbed the ""T-Pain effect"", the use of Auto-Tune became a popular fixture of late 2000s"
"it. At least he's using it well, following the Cher model, where you slightly and subtly androiderise your all-too meaty voice so that it sits better among the unyielding electronica. It's a bit like having a USB port soldered into your neck. Slightly painful, but a useful way to get two different operating systems to interface effectively*. The other model is to use it as a kind of robo-polyfilla, where all vocal cracks are given a smooth metallic outer coating because the voice inside would simply collapse without it. If asked, all singers and producers will claim that this model"
"Auto-Tune Auto-Tune is an audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies which uses a proprietary device to measure and alter pitch in vocal and instrumental music recording and performances. It was originally intended to disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies, allowing vocal tracks to be perfectly tuned despite originally being slightly off-pitch. Starting with Cher's 1998 hit ""Believe"", producers began to use Auto-Tune as a sound effect, to deliberately distort vocals. By 2018, music critic Simon Reynolds observed that Auto-Tune had ""revolutionized popular music"", calling its use for effects ""the fad that just wouldn’t fade. Its use is now more entrenched"
"'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."" Although Auto-Tune is used by a variety of artists, Regina Bradley states it can be particularly useful for black artists to have more control of their voice's sound and change it to fit the mood of the song. This is seen in two notable examples, in the works of Kanye West and T-Pain. T-Pain, the R&B singer and rapper who reintroduced the use of Auto-Tune"
"human voice. Artists such as Daft Punk, Eiffel 65, *NSYNC, 98 Degrees, Willa Ford, and even Faith Hill have used Auto-Tune in their songs. It was first known as the ""Cher effect"" since it was used in the song ""Believe"" by Cher in 1998. The Black Eyed Peas began utilizing Auto-Tune and electropop–dance in their most successful album to date, ""The E.N.D."", which spawned five top ten hit singles: ""Boom Boom Pow"", ""I Gotta Feeling"", ""Meet Me Halfway"", ""Imma Be"", and ""Rock That Body"". Due to hip-hop's increased moulding with pop music, some, such as rapper Nas have declared the"
"as a vocal effect in pop music with his album ""Rappa Ternt Sanga"" in 2005, says ""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."" 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"
"in real time. Pitch correction is a form of pitch shifting and is found in software such as Auto-Tune to correct intonation inaccuracies in a recording or performance. Pitch shifting may raise or lower all sounds in a recording by the same amount, whereas in practice, pitch correction may make different changes from note to note. Numerous cartoons have used pitch shifters to produce distinctive animal voices. Alvin and the Chipmunks recordings with David Seville (aka Ross Bagdasarian) were created by recording vocal tracks at slow speeds, then playing them back at normal speeds. Voice artist Mel Blanc used pitch"
"a ""repeating"" chorus backed by a ""descending echo-synth"". It contains a reduced number of notes in order to further accentuate the hook. While Carey employs a ""sassy"" tone of voice, both her and T-Pain's vocals are processed with Auto-Tune. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic thought that the use of Auto-Tune on Carey's vocals served a ""dual purpose"", and explained that while it ""camouflages her slightly diminishing range"" it also made her sound ""modern"". Ben Ratliff of ""The New York Times"" felt that T-Pain sounded more interesting than Carey despite the use of Auto-Tune. Sarah Rodman of ""The Boston Globe"" described"
"NAMM Show later that year, where ""it was instantly a massive hit."" Hildebrand had come up with the idea for a vocal pitch correction technology on the suggestion of a colleague's wife, who had joked that she could use a device to help her sing in tune. Originally, Auto-Tune was designed to discreetly correct imprecise intonations, in order to make music more expressive, with the original patent asserting that ""When voices or instruments are out of tune, the emotional qualities of the performance are lost."" According to Chris Lee of the ""Los Angeles Times"", Cher's 1998 song ""Believe"" is ""widely"
"Vocalina VOCALINA (보카리나) is a ""text to speech"" vocal synthesizer, it was the first music speech synthesis technology (Singing TTS Technology) to be developed focus on the Korean language and is focused on singing. It is designed to be easy to use and produce high quality singing results. It is in the Korean language, and has similar functions to that of the Vocaloid synthesis engine. Using the editor users can alter a vocals height (Pitch), dynamics (Dynamics), Vibe ration (Vibration), Reverb (REV), and Echo (ECO) for better results. Since it is a Studio, one is able to mix the vocals"
"the 1970s were described by Eder as ""dramatic, highly intense ... [and] almost as much 'acted' as sung"". First heard in the 1980 record ""Black Rose"", Cher employed sharper, more aggressive vocals on her hard rock-oriented albums, establishing her sexually confident image. For the 1995 album ""It's a Man's World"", she restrained her vocals, singing in higher registers and without vibrato. The 1998 song ""Believe"" has an electronic vocal effect proposed by Cher, and was the first commercial recording to feature Auto-Tune—an audio processor originally intended to disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies in vocal music recordings—as a deliberate creative effect;"
"shifting techniques to create the voices of Tweety and Daffy Duck. One notable early practitioner of pitch shifting in music is Chuck Berry, who used the technique to make his voice sound younger. Many of the Beatles' records from 1966 and 1967 were made by recording instrumental tracks a half-step higher and the vocals correspondingly low. Examples include ""Rain"", ""I'm Only Sleeping"", and ""When I'm Sixty-Four"". Electronic musician Burial is known for including pitch-shifted samples of vocal melodies in his songs. Goregrind and occasionally death metal use vocals that are often pitch-shifted to sound unnaturally low and guttural. The famous"
"digital audio technology both old and new. Red Hot Chili Peppers song By the Way uses a vocoder effect on Anthony Kiedis' vocals. Among the most consistent uses of vocoder in emulating the human voice are Daft Punk, who have used this instrument from their first album ""Homework"" (1997) to their latest work ""Random Access Memories"" (2013) and consider the convergence of technological and human voice ""the identity of their musical project"". For instance, the lyrics of ""Around the World"" (1997) are integrally vocoder-processed, ""Get Lucky"" (2013) features a mix of natural and processed human voices, and ""Instant Crush"" (2013)"
"features Julian Casablancas singing into a vocoder. Taylor Swift used a vocoder in the Grammy nominated song Delicate ""Robot voices"" became a recurring element in popular music during the 20th century. Apart from vocoders, several other methods of producing variations on this effect include: the Sonovox, Talk box, and Auto-Tune, linear prediction vocoders, speech synthesis, ring modulation and comb filter. Vocoders are used in television production, filmmaking and games, usually for robots or talking computers. The robot voices of the Cylons in ""Battlestar Galactica"" were created with an EMS Vocoder 2000. The 1980 version of the ""Doctor Who"" theme, as"
"are ""Power E.V.E.C."", ""Cold"" and ""Serious."" Enhanced Voice Expression Control (E.V.E.C.) is a new system developed for Piapro Studios which allows delicate changes to how phonetic sounds sound. There are two options for the E.V.E.C. vocals: ""Power"" and ""Soft."" All Rin and Len vocals can use the new Cross-Synthesis (XSY) system developed for Vocaloid4, though are limited to only being able to do so with other vocals of their assign character of ""Rin"" or ""Len"". Rin and Len each received an English vocal which was released on the same day as the Japanese vocal. These vocals are available separately as"
"a computerized voice using the DECtalk text-to-speech system. ""Paul's"" voice was dissatisfactory and difficult to understand; thus ""Craig"", ""Tom,"" ""Donna"" and later ""Javier"" were introduced in 2002 using the Speechify text-to-speech system. A completely new voice was introduced in 2016 and implemented nationwide by late in the year. Live human voices are still used occasionally for weekly tests of the Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) and 1050 Hz tone alerting systems, station IDs, and in the event of system failure or computer upgrades. They will also be used on some stations for updates on the time and radio frequency. In"
"metal band Cynic. Though the vocoder is by far the best-known, the following other pieces of music technology are often confused with it: Robotic voice effects Robotic voice effects became a recurring element in popular music starting in the second half of the twentieth century. Several methods of producing variations on this effect have arisen. The vocoder was originally designed to aid in the transmission of voices over telephony systems. In musical applications the original sounds, either from vocals or from other sources such as instruments, are used and fed into a system of filters and noise generators. The input"
"their top 50 free instruments list. Computer Music magazine also covered the synthesizer in their December 2015 issue. Alter/Ego Alter/Ego (アルター・エゴ) is a free real-time vocal synthesizer software which was created by Plogue. Alter/Ego is a text-to-speech synthesizer which aims to create more modern vocals, working to post 1990s research. It was offered as a free plug-in and is used for music making to produce singing vocals. It operates in a similar manner to Chipspeech. Vocals are clean-cut though robotic sounding and the software is ideal for vocal experimentation. It is capable of running different speech engines. There currently is"
"credited with injecting Auto-Tune's mechanical modulations into pop consciousness"". Cher's producers used the device to ""exaggerate the artificiality of abrupt pitch correction"", contrary to its original purpose. In an early interview, the producers of ""Believe"" claimed they had used a DigiTech Talker FX pedal, in what ""Sound on Sound""’s editors felt was an attempt to preserve a trade secret. After the success of ""Believe"" the technique was initially referred to as the ""Cher Effect"". In the year 2000, the single ""Naive Song"" performed by Mirwais Ahmadzai from his album ""Production"" was the first ever track using Auto-Tune on the complete"
"every record these days. In 2010, the British television reality TV show ""The X Factor"" admitted to using Auto-Tune to improve the voices of contestants. Simon Cowell, one of the show's bosses, ordered a ban on Auto-Tune for future episodes. Also in 2010, ""Time"" magazine included Auto-Tune in their list of ""The 50 Worst Inventions"". Neko Case in a 2006 interview with ""Pitchfork"" gave an example of how prevalent pitch correction is in the industry: Used by stars from Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne to Britney Spears and Cher, the use of Auto-Tune has been widely criticized as indicative of"
"Kagamine Rin/Len , sometimes referred to as Rin & Len Kagamine, are humanoid personas voiced by a singing synthesizer application developed by Crypton Future Media, headquartered in Sapporo, Japan. They use Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 and Vocaloid 4 singing synthesizing technology. Their voices are sampled by Asami Shimoda. They have performed at live concerts onstage as animated hologram projections. Their names are derived from the concept of 'left' and 'right', like on earphones. Their surnames came from the Japanese words for and . Rin & Len were developed by Crypton Future Media using Yamaha's Vocaloid 2. Their voices were created"
"beating their Vocaloids products such as Hatsune Miku which normally dominated their rankings. Chipspeech Chipspeech is a vocal synthesizer software which was created by Plogue with the goal of recreating 1980s synthesizers. The software is used for creating vocals for use within music. Chipspeech is designed to produce vintage style vocals from synthesizers that were used by the music industry in the 1980s. The vocals therefore are not meant to sound realistic and are more suited for sound experimentation. It works as a Text-to-speech method. Users type the lyrics in and receive instant play back results which was a capability"
"in their series ""Songify the News"". The Gregory Brothers digitally manipulated recorded voices of politicians, news anchors, and political pundits to conform to a melody, making the figures appear to sing. The group achieved mainstream success with their ""Bed Intruder Song"" video, which became the most-watched YouTube video of 2010. Auto-Tune Auto-Tune is an audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies which uses a proprietary device to measure and alter pitch in vocal and instrumental music recording and performances. It was originally intended to disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies, allowing vocal tracks to be perfectly tuned despite originally being slightly"
"a helium mask. Conversely, an unnaturally low voice may be achieved by asking the singer to inhale sulfur hexafluoride. This technique is less popular than helium inhalation, in part because of the inherent risk of the gas displacing oxygen in the lungs. Amplification, such as microphone or even megaphone, possibly with electronic distortion of the voice, is frequently used in contemporary composition. Through the use of various electronic distortion techniques, vocal enhancement possibilities are nearly unlimited. A good example of this technique can be found in much of the music written and performed by Laurie Anderson. There are a number"
"similar to those described here to achieve high quality signal transformation is Ircam's SuperVP. British composer Trevor Wishart used phase vocoder analyses and transformations of a human voice as the basis for his composition ""Vox 5"" (part of his larger Vox Cycle). ""Transfigured Wind"" by American composer Roger Reynolds uses the phase vocoder to perform time-stretching of flute sounds. The music of JoAnn Kuchera-Morin makes some of the earliest and most extensive use of phase vocoder transformations, such as in ""Dreampaths"" (1989). The proprietary Auto-Tune pitch-correcting software, widely used in commercial music production, is based on the phase vocoder principle."
"AlterEgo AlterEgo is a wearable silent speech output-input device developed by MIT Media Lab. The device is attached around the head, neck, and jawline and translates your brain speech center impulse input into words on a computer, without vocalization. The device consists of 7 small electrodes that attach at various points around the jaw-line and mouth to receive the electrical inputs to the muscles used for speech. It looks similar to a sling for the head, neck and jaw. Scientists Arnav Kapur of Fluid Interfaces group at MIT Media Lab with Shreyas Kapur and Pattie Maes designed the prototype and"
"tiled bathrooms and toilets were all used as substitute echo chambers. Many famous soul music and R&B music recordings released by the New York-based Atlantic Records feature echo and reverb effects produced by simply placing a speaker and microphone in the office toilet—a process also used by Producer/Engineer Bruce Botnick while recording The Doors for their 1970 album ""L.A. Woman"". In the 1950s and 1960s, the development of magnetic audio tape technology made it possible to duplicate physical echo and reverberation effects entirely electronically. The Watkins Copicat, designed and built by renowned British electronics engineer Charlie Watkins in the late"
"kidney function. On May 7, 2014, Cher confirmed a collaboration with American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan on their album ""Once Upon a Time in Shaolin"". Credited as Bonnie Jo Mason, she uses an alias of hers originated in 1964. Only one copy of the album has been produced, and it was sold by online auction in November 2015. After appearing as Marc Jacobs' guest at the 2015 Met Gala, Cher posed for his brand's fall/winter advertising campaign. The fashion designer stated, ""This has been a dream of mine for a very, very long time."" Classic Cher, a two-year, 96-performance"
"Me"" and ""Deeper and Deeper""), as well as contemporary R&B and new jack swing (e.g. Shanice's ""I Love Your Smile""). By the late 1990s, electronic influences became evident in dance-pop music; Madonna's critically acclaimed and commercially successful album ""Ray of Light"" (1998) incorporated techno, trance and other forms of electronic dance music, bringing electronica into mainstream dance-pop. Additionally, also in 1998, Cher released a dance-pop song called ""Believe"" which made usage of a technological innovation of the time, Auto-Tune. An audio processor and a form of pitch modification software, Auto-Tune is commonly used as a way to correct pitch and"
"Alter/Ego Alter/Ego (アルター・エゴ) is a free real-time vocal synthesizer software which was created by Plogue. Alter/Ego is a text-to-speech synthesizer which aims to create more modern vocals, working to post 1990s research. It was offered as a free plug-in and is used for music making to produce singing vocals. It operates in a similar manner to Chipspeech. Vocals are clean-cut though robotic sounding and the software is ideal for vocal experimentation. It is capable of running different speech engines. There currently is only 1 released vocal for the software, but more are due to be released in different styles. The"
"contribution to the film, writing: ""I sang ""You Are My Lucky Star"" with Gene Kelly. It was a very rangy song and done in his key. My part did not come out well, and my singing voice was dubbed in by Betty Royce [sic]"". Automated dialogue replacement, also known as ""ADR"" or ""looping,"" is a film sound technique involving the re-recording of dialogue after photography. Sometimes the dialogue recorded on location is unsatisfactory either because it has too much background noise on it or the director is not happy with the performance, so the actors replace their own voices in"