The Correction Modes In Auto-Tune. There are two correction modes and ways to use Auto-Tune. There’s Auto Mode, also know as “lazy mode”, and Graphical Mode, also known as “Auto-Tune”. Auto Mode basically runs in real-time, and analyzes the audio as it passes through. It then determines what to do to the audio, as it passes through. Sep 17, 2018 Perhaps because of Cher’s involvement in Auto-Tune’s debut on the world pop stage, critics have often connected pitch-correction and cosmetic surgery, comparing the effect to Botox, face peels, collagen injections, and the rest. In the video for “Believe,” Cher. Aug 08, 2005 Hello! I would like to know how you guys deal with having to auto tune an out of tune vocal without knowing the key of the song. The situation is the Singer as well as myself do. In case you don't know what it is, Auto-Tune, in a nutshell, is a pitch correction software that allows the user to set the key signature of the song so that the pitch of the incoming signal will be corrected to the closest note in that key (and does so in real time). Mar 16, 2018 HIS AUTO-TUNE STOPS WORKING LIVE. (Drake, Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar & MORE!) in this video we look at Rappers Without ANY Auto-Tune to see how different they sound! We countdown this list from God.
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(Program not available for streaming.) NOVA scienceNOW talks to the engineers behind Auto-Tune, the pitch-correction software that turns sour notes into sweet ones. Professional musicians from Madonna to Snoop Dogg use Auto-Tune, but can the software turn host Neil deGrasse Tyson into a singing star?
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PBS Airdate: June 30, 2009
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: 'Ourlove was like a supernova,'
Yeah,I sing.
'In the nebula of my soul.'
Okay,I'm not great.
'But now I find her heart is like a bigblack hole.'
Allright, I'm terrible. But here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you canremove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don'twe have the technology to make me sing better?
ANDYHILDEBRAND (Antares Audio Technologies): We can fix Neil.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: This guy invented away to do it.
ANDYHILDEBRAND: We can fix Neil's pitch. He'sstill going to sound like Neil, though.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: Electrical engineerand inventor Andy Hildebrand designs pitch-correction software. He calls itAuto-Tune.
'Pitchcorrection?' Is that a euphemism for 'fixing bad singers?'
ANDYHILDEBRAND: Yes, we fix bad singers.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: I visited Andy atAntares Audio Technologies in Scotts Valley California, where he and engineerJustin Malo...
JUSTINMALO: Hey,Neil.
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NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: ...showed me how itworks.
Hummmmmmmmmm.
ANDYHILDEBRAND: Great. There you go. You didthat.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: That wavy line representsthe exact frequency of my voice. This line shows where a perfect A should be,so, not too bad.
ANDYHILDEBRAND: He's right dead nuts on in tune.Look at that.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: So how does acomputer know that?
ANDYHILDEBRAND: When you hear A, you'rehearing 440 vibrations per second.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: So somebody at thebeginning of time said 440 vibrations per second is an A?
ANDYHILDEBRAND: A.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: So, if you sing orplay a pitch at 440 cycles per second, the computer calls it an A and it restson this line. B-flat would go on the line above it, G-sharp below, and so on.
'Butnow I find her heart...'
Whenyou're out of tune, the notes don't fall so neatly onto the lines of the grid.
'...big...'
That'sawful.
'...blackhole.'
ANDYHILDEBRAND: Well, it's creative, it'screative. Okay.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: '...supernova...'
Thoselines are me singing the word 'super.'
'supernova...'
Mypitch is all over the place. If anything, it's closest to this note, here.
JUSTINMALO: Neil,you sang an F, which normally is okay, if you're in the key of F. And we're not,so we moved your F to an E.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: 'Supernova...'
SoJustin gently nudges it down to where an E would be.
'Supernova...'
You'rechanging the frequency of the sound that came out of my vocal cords.
JUSTINMALO: Actually,yes.
ALVINAND THE CHIPMUNKS (Audio recording):'Christmas, Christmas...'
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON:Changingpitch isn't new. You can change someone's voice by fast forwarding on a taperecorder, but you'd sound like...
ALVINAND THE CHIPMUNKS (Audio recording):'Christmas, Christmas time ishere.'
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: ...well, achipmunk.
Pitchcorrection software lets you change the pitch...
'Supernova...'
...whilekeeping the essential tone of a voice the same.
Andso, although few engineers are willing to admit it, pitch correction software,like Auto-Tune, has become an indispensable tool in most recording studios.
ANDYHILDEBRAND: It's been used by a lot ofpeople: Madonna...
MADONNA (Film clip): 'Music makes the bourgeoisie...'
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: ...Celine Dion...
CELINEDION (Film clip): 'You got one heart you are following...'
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: Reba McEntire usesit live?
REBAMcENTIRE (Film clip): 'Starting over again...'
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: You're telling me asinger can sing into a microphone a bad note, and out the speakers comes a goodnote?
ANDYHILDEBRAND: Yes.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: Now, that's evil.
ANDYHILDEBRAND: To modify something isn'tnecessarily evil. My wife wears makeup. Is that evil?
Isthat okay, honey?
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: Evil or not, therecording industry kept Auto-Tune on the down-low.
ANDYHILDEBRAND: The secret popped out of thebag when Cher did 'Believe.'
CHER(Film clip): 'Do you believe in lifeafter love?'
ANDYHILDEBRAND: I couldn't believe it.
CHER(Film clip): '...aside and I can't breakthrough...'
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: Rather thangradually and naturally reaching up to each note...
CHER(Film clip): 'I can feel somethinginside me say...'
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: ...like this,Cher's producer forced Auto-Tune to jump suddenly from one pitch to the next.
CHER(Film clip): 'I feel something inside mesay...'
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: Is this some knobthat you turn?
ANDYHILDEBRAND: Yes.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: All right.
ANDYHILDEBRAND: And we can turn this knob tozero, which means 'move instantaneously to the new pitch.' And so, if we dothat, your voice would sound like this.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: 'But nowI find her heart...'
Didyou plan for people to use it that way?
ANDYHILDEBRAND: No. I didn't think anybody intheir right mind would ever use it that way.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: Well a lot ofartists do.
T-PAIN(Film clip): 'She got me doing the dishes
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Anything she want for some kisses'
OJO(Film clip): 'I wasyoung and in love...'
SNOOPDOG (Film clip): 'She might be with him but she's thinkin' boutme, me, me.'
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: But it's mostlyused to tweak out-of-tune performances—a kind of cosmetic surgery.
'...bigblack hole.'
Inmy case though, more like triple-bypass.
ANDYHILDEBRAND: Try to change this to the keyof C.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: Moving the tracesof my voice up in pitch or down...
'...supernova...'
...Justincoaxes me into tune.
'Supernova
ofmy soul...'
Ittook several hours.
'...ofmy soul...'
Howwell did it work? You be the judge.
'Ourlove was like a supernova
Inthe nebula of my soul, but now I find
herheart is like a big black hole...'
JUSTINMALO: It'sa lot more pleasing.
NEILDeGRASSE TYSON: I thought the firstone sounded pretty good myself, I don't know.
Kiddingaside, there's no substitute for training or talent.
ANDYHILDEBRAND: If the singer doesn't have agood tonality to their voice, we're not going to make that better.
Dous a favor. Don't go on American Idol.
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If you switched on the radio in the summer of 1998, chances are you got a taste of Cher's 'Believe,' an up-tempo ode to bouncing back after a rough breakup. More than a quarter century after first rising to prominence as a 1960s folk artist, the 52-year-old Cher was once again climbing the charts. In malls, dance clubs and laser bowling alleys across the country, 'Believe' played frequently. By the time the dust had settled, the song had become Cher's bestselling recording ever -- and one of the bestselling singles of all time.
At the time, the most notable feature of the song was an electronic modification on the vocals. The effect first appears 35 seconds into the song, while Cher sings 'I can't break through.' On each of the last three words, Cher's voice undergoes a bizarre electronic glitch.
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The reason behind that glitch was Auto-Tune, a pitch-correcting software designed to smooth out any off-key notes in a singer's vocal track. Released only the year before 'Believe,' it was the recording industry's favorite dirty secret: With only a few clicks of a mouse, Auto-Tune could turn even the most cringe-worthy singer into a pop virtuoso. But most music studios kept it around simply to fix with the occasional wrong note.
During the recording sessions for 'Believe,' however, Cher's British producers had put the software into overdrive. Instead of lightly tuning the pitch of Cher's voice, they had adjusted the levels so sharply that it became an unmistakable part of the song. The effect was weird and robotic, but against a background of synthesizers and high-energy percussion, it worked like a charm. Opera singers have long been using vibrato, a technique of delivering a note in a constantly wavering pitch. As far as Cher and her producers were concerned, though, Auto-Tune was simply a computerized twist on the technique.
As 'Believe' hit the airwaves, the producers aimed to keep the lid on their new toy. So much so, that when interviewed about the technique by a sound engineering magazine, they lied and said it was due to a vocoder, a well-known voice modulation device used since the 1970s [source: Sillitoe].
But the truth eventually trickled out, and when it did, Auto-Tune's inventor, Harold 'Andy' Hildebrand, was shocked. Auto-Tune was supposed to be a behind-the-scenes trick for the recording studio. The New Yorker had compared it to blotting out the red-eye in a photograph, and Hildebrand himself compared it to wearing makeup [source: Frere-Jones, NOVA].
But now, Hildebrand's brainchild was making Cher sound like a robot. 'I never figured anyone in their right mind would want to do that,' Hildebrand told Time magazine [source: Tyrangiel] Whether he realized it at the time or not, Hildebrand's electronic creation was about to become one of the largest technological influences on popular music since Les Paul invented the modern electric guitar.