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Autotune voice synthesizer |
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Auto-Tune is actually an audio processor that can be used to tune already recorded or played vocals and instruments into the right pitch. Pitch correction by Auto-Tune was a trade secret up until Cher had a mega hit with "Believe" in 1998, where Auto-Tune was used to make Cher's voice sound strange and distorted. Currently up to 90 percent of all recording artists are using Auto-Tune to fine pitch their performances and many singing sensations of the last decade have to thank Antares Audio Technologies for their gadget, otherwise they would have no careers at all. Pitch shifting and harmonizers were known from before Auto-Tune was developed, but the technology that controls the corrected signal to be in tune, that still needed to be invented. It was none other than Andy Hildebrand, a seismic engineer working for Exxon, the oil company, who developed the technology in order to interpret seismic data. Later he recognized that it could be utilized to modify, analyze and detect pitch. He founded the Antares Audio Technologies in 1990 and released several ProTools plug-ins, one of which was Auto-Tune by 1997. While the plug-in became an instant success, the portable unit, the ATR-1 hardware DSP effect |
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