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Voice Synthesizer Overload

10 Auto-Tune Abusers

— October 22, 2008 — Pop Culture
Antares Audio Technologies has created a monster with its ubiquitous Auto-Tune technology. This audio plugin is a pitch correction tool that has been used and abused by modern music acts in every genre. Some artists use Auto-Tune's powers in concert to ensure a good live performance, like Faith Hill and Tim McGraw. Others, like T-Pain and Craig David, have used Auto-Tune to fuel their careers.

In 1998, Cher's "Believe" brought popular attention to Auto-Tune technology, but the plugin was kept a secret. The single opened the door for other pop singers like JoJo and Madonna to utilize Auto-Tune to manipulate portions of their songs for dramatic effect.

And then hip hop happened. T-Pain emerged onto the scene as a singer that exclusively used Auto-Tune to modify his vocals. During one week in 2007, four singles--one of them at the #1 slot--in the Billboard Top 100 chart featured T-Pain's vocals. Snoop Dogg tried his hand at singing for "Sensual Seduction" in 2007, using Auto-Tune as a crutch. And most recently, Kanye West's "Love Lockdown" employs Auto-Tune throughout in T-Pain-like fashion.

I'm over Auto-Tune. How about you?
Trend Themes
1. Auto-tune Abusers - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop alternative vocal effects technologies that offer creative and unique ways to modify vocals without relying on Auto-Tune.
2. Live Performance Enhancement - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create tools or plugins that can enhance live performances of artists without relying on pitch correction technologies like Auto-Tune.
3. Real-time Vocal Manipulation - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Explore real-time vocal manipulation technologies that can offer artists complete control over modifying their vocals during performances.
Industry Implications
1. Music Production - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Introduce new software or hardware solutions that revolutionize the way music producers work with vocal effects and pitch correction.
2. Live Sound Technology - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop advanced audio equipment and systems that provide superior vocal performance enhancement capabilities for live sound engineers and artists.
3. Entertainment Technology - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create new technologies that enhance the overall entertainment experience by offering innovative ways to modify and manipulate vocals in music and other forms of entertainment.
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