On 18/05/2011, at 8:06 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote:

> Here's something ironic: we've instead focused on ways to *correct* human 
> error in music. Pitch correction for your vocals, but don't use too much, or 
> you'll sound like a fax machine (unless that's what you're going for, in 
> which case you turn it up all the way.) I love how the kids these days call 
> it "autotune" and recognize the sound of it right away. And then there's 
> quantization, which is what you do to a recording when your timing was wrong 
> to fix it. Among the most interesting slices of life I've seen was a drummer 
> who totally lost it and went agro when his guitarist said "you want me to 
> quantize that for you?"
> 


They call it autotune because the first tool that did this form of automatic 
pitch correction in any form of wide-spread way was the product antares 
autotune.

Julian.
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