"In the nebula of my soul." Okay, I'm not great. "But now I find her heart is like a big black hole." All right, I'm terrible. But here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, ...

It happened exactly 36 seconds into the song—a glimpse of the shape of pop to come, a feel of the fabric of the future we now inhabit. The phrase “I can’t break through” turned crystalline, like the ...

Onetime Fugee Wyclef Jean’s new song performs a neat trick: It slams artists who use Auto-Tune while — you guessed it — employing T-Pain’s favorite studio crutch. “Mr. Autotune” is supposed to be a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cats have long inspired musicians, but, hungry for more than just tuna treats, our furry friends are now posting their very own songs on the internet. With a little help from an auto-tune program, one ...