Typically, the music-streaming public remains at arm’s length when it comes to tricks and tips that artists use in the recording studio — it’s too nerdy, too complicated, and only useful to obsessives ...

On The Vergecast: how a simple pitch-correction plugin became a dominant sound in music, and how the next technical revolution might follow its lead. On The Vergecast: how a simple pitch-correction ...

Linda Diaz and Arthur Buckner uncover how Auto-Tune became THE in-demand tool for studios. Thanks to artists like T-Pain, Cher, and Kanye West, Auto-Tune went from being an industry secret to an ...

If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...

There are few musical technologies that are as ubiquitous, maligned and misunderstood as Antares’ Auto-Tune. What was conceived in 1997 as a discrete tool for cleaning up vocals and optimizing the ...

I admit that, before arriving at the NAMM show this week, I didn’t know that Auto-Tune was an actual brand. Like most people, I knew of it as a generic term to describe pop music producers making ...