Have you ever wondered how the idea of creating a voice corrector came about?
Well, during a meal with friends!
Andy Hildebrand, an American engineer, developed during his career a tool to analyze seismic data.
Once retired, during a dinner with friends around the year 1996, his wife, who loves to sing, puts forward the idea that it would be incredible if a tool could make it possible to sing more just for her and her friends.
The idea was born. Andy Hildebrand takes it into his head to transform his seismic analysis software to create the first voice corrector.
A seismologist who is revolutionizing the music industry. Incredible isn’t it?
Antares AutoTunes is therefore historically the first vocal corrector that helps to sing in tune.
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A controversial invention however….
Like any new innovation, AutoTunes does not escape its own drift, its use sometimes pushed to the extreme gave birth to the Auto-Tune effect (often confused with the vocoder for that matter).
Adjusted to the extreme, the software makes the voice artificial and metallic. Practice popularized by Cher and rapper T-Pain, and also Kanye West in the 2000s.
Whatever you think, Auto-Tune revolutionized the music industry by giving the ability to sing in tune to all artists around the world.
But few use it in the studio as it should. Because it is not enough to launch the software for a pan voice to suddenly become that of Celine Dion!
The sound engineer must know the key on which you will sing and adjust the software according to this, generally using an instrument that he has available in his studio (guitar, piano).
Nowadays, Auto-Tune is everywhere, some have made it their trademark like Drake or Travis Scott and use it as an instrument in its own right. That’s lit!
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