Tag: AUTOTUNE

Are you a glutton for punishment? Do you enjoy bleeding ears? Have you not tired of Katy Perry, the Bieber and Kanye? Well, you fans of the satanic invention known as Auto-Tune, take note: you can now sound like a soulless robot using your Android phone. One of the coders over at XDA Developers has released MicDroid , a free app that will melodize your mutterings, à la the similar T-Pain ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Studio Ghibli, the animation studio behind 'Princess Mononoke' and 'My Neighbor Totoro,' is bringing its beautiful, hand-drawn visual style to the PlayStation 3 in 'Ni ...

Some musical prodigies can listen to a song once, then bang it out, note for note, on a piano. Others can pick out A-flats and C-sharps from the cacophony of rush hour traffic. These rare kinds of aural abilities, though, are no longer restricted to the domain of Mozarts and Mendelssohns, thanks to a new music-transcribing software developed by Spanish engineers. As PopSci explains, the ...

We should've seen this one coming a mile away. The hottest trend in the music business, Auto-Tune, has arrived on the hottest social-networking site on the Web, Facebook. Thanks to a new Facebook app from Sony, you can now Auto-Tune your status update. According to Mashable, after installing the app, you simply type your status (maybe something about being on a boat), choose a voice and a beat, ...

You've probably never before heard this from your grandparents, parents, uncle, older sibling, the burnout dude at the record store, or that guy with the Prince Valiant/Johnny Ramone haircut hanging out in the corner of your favorite dive bar, but -- over the years -- music has changed. Even more than musical styles, themselves, the processes and equipment associated with recording music, ...

There's a great debate going on in popular music, and it centers on a software program called 'Auto-Tune.' Its name might not sound familiar, but if you've turned on the radio lately, you've heard it used. From country artists like Faith Hill to rap artists like T-Pain, musicians are using 'Auto-Tune' to change the pitch of their vocals, thus adding a robotic effect to the sound of their already ...