Good idea, but as most of the current pop stars are already androids, most of them (at least the latest models) already have the auto-sync function built in.
- Marco On Dec 16, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: > Hmmm. I had never heard of auto-tune. Not too surprising actually as I am not > a big audiophile. > So I went to Wikipedia to find out what the %#&&%@ you all were talking > about. "Very interesting..." [Laugh-In quote.] > > It seems to me that the next big technological revolution will be auto-synch. > Singers can do their auto-tuned songs in their recording studios, and then > they can do a perfect lip synch on stage, with auto-synch making real-time > corrections to their appearance in order to maintain proper vocal/visual > synch. Might be ok with broadcast performances, might be trick kin a Live > setting. Even better would be some implants in the jaws and mouth, computer > controlled, responsive to the piped in sounds the singers are supposed to be > making as they pretend to sing. > > stan > > > On Dec 16, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Marco Alpert wrote: > >> Thanks for that, John. I've been debating whether to jump in on the >> Auto-Tune issue, but since I've spent the last 15 years as the marketing guy >> for the company that invented and markets Auto-Tune, I was concerned that it >> might come off as a bit defensive. >> >> Suffice it to say that while it's largely come to popular attention outside >> the recording industry as a result of its use as an effect, first in pop >> music back in the the Cher "Believe" days, and more recently in hip hop (and >> then everything), for every song that you hear using it as an effect, >> there's probably a hundred more that use it for its initially intended >> purpose where its use is entirely inaudible. And I can tell you that it's >> *not* just for the vocally challenged. It's used by many extremely talented >> vocalists, some in musical genres far from pop music. (And as a bonus, it >> gave me the entirely unexpected opportunity to be quoted in New York Times >> responding to Jay-Z: >> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/when-jay-z-hates-your-software/?_r=0 >> ) >> >> - Marco >> >> >> On Dec 16, 2013, at 5:17 AM, John wrote: >> >>> On 12/15/2013 3:19 AM, David Mann wrote: >>>> On Dec 15, 2013, at 6:13 am, Walt <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> The arts in general are due for a reckoning of some sort. People >>>>> can only stand so much auto-tune in their music, and so many >>>>> Instagram filters in their images, so many cinematic "reboots" of >>>>> 20-year-old movies before they start longing for something more. >>>> >>>> Trouble is, the current generation is growing up to only know >>>> Autotune, Instagram and movie reboots. >>>> >>>> I went to see The Hobbit yesterday and saw a poster for a Robocop >>>> reboot. At this rate I'm going to pack up and run away to live as a >>>> hermit on the west coast :( >>>> >>>> Cheers, Dave >>>> >>>> >>> >>> When applied lightly, with a deft hand, Autotune can be a lifesaver ... >>> or at least can save a less than perfect vocal performance. Everyone >>> gets all wrapped around the axle over the way it's misused & ignore the >>> benefits it can have for the vocally challenged among us. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
