In the history of singing western society solo vocal performances has continued to rise from unlikely causes such as auto tune. Similar to most arts music is no different. Composers and singers have always break the mold to find the next big thing that may come along regardless of what it is. The controversial approach to the that autotune has caused would show the effect rather than the …show more content…
He was an electrical engineer. Andy had created ways for interpreting data and ended up creating a way for him to control, detect, and modify a pitch to the users ideal sound.
The word Auto Tune had become more Urbanized as it became more popular in rap music and the began to become apart of the culture. The software music enhancer become so popular that other companies where coming out with boot leg versions. The made a huge market for the new technology.
The Talk box was very similar and populular to the original autotune Typically, a talk box directs sound from the instrument into the musician's mouth by means of a plastic tube adjacent to their vocal microphone. The musician controls the modification of the instrument's sound by changing the shape of the mouth, "vocalizing" the instrument's output into a microphone.
The Earliest known use of Auto tune was a vocal effect in the song “Fragments of life” by an artist by the name of Roy Vedas. Roy had dropped the song in August 17, 1998 and changed everything from then on. After this other artist began to steal this new sound and they coined this the “Cher effect” because cher the artist had also taken it for her song …show more content…
This technique soon became widespread phenomenon. In 2002, the CD Miss Fortune by singer-songwriter Allison Moorer was released with a sticker stating that “Absolutely no vocal tuning or pitch correction was used in the making of this record". At the 51st Grammy Awards in early 2009, the band Death Cab for Cutie wore blue ribbons to protest the use of Auto-Tune in the music industry. The spring of 2009 Jay-Z named the lead single of his album The Blueprint 3 as "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)". Jay-Z said that far too many people had jumped on the Auto-Tune bandwagon and that the trend had become a gimmick. Christina Aguilera appeared in public in Los Angeles on August 10, 2009 wearing a T-shirt that read, "Autotune is for Pussies". However, when interviewed by Sirius/XM, she said that Auto-Tune wasn't bad if used "..in a creative way". She said her album Bionic uses the technology and highlighted "Elastic Love" being a product of it.
The program was released by Antares Audio Technologies in 1997 and until recently has played an integral, but discreet, role in music sales. The audio program has taken over as Autotune has become the primary audio software program that alters pitch. It has also begane altering instrumental sounds as new updates and revamps have