Antares To Bring Auto-Tune To iPhone
According to Time Magazine, Antares is currently working with Auto-Tune poster boy T-Pain to bring an Auto-Tune App to the iPhone and iPod touch.
From Time:
Let’s hope that pop’s fetish for uniform perfect pitch will fade, even if the spread of Auto-Tune shows no signs of slowing. A $99 version for home musicians was released in November 2007, and T-Pain and Auto-Tune’s parent company are finishing work on an iPhone app. “It’s gonna be real cool,” says T-Pain. “Basically, you can add Auto-Tune to your voice and send it to your friends and put it on the Web. You’ll be able to sound just like me.” Asked if that might render him no longer unique, T-Pain laughs: “I’m not too worried. I got lots of tricks you ain’t seen yet. It’s everybody else that needs to step up their game.”
I’ve already expressed my distaste for the abuse of Auto-Tune. I understand the creative possibilities it presents, and commend T-Pain and others for finding a signature sound. As subjective as it is, I just hate the sound of over-tuned vox. The last thing I want is to be getting a bunch of Auto-Tuned singing telegrams in my voicemail box from friends abusing this rumored iPhone app.
What boggles my mind even more is that Diddy and Kanye have paid T-Pain big bucks to teach them how to use Auto-Tune. Was the plug-in this unknown to the hip hop world through all these years? Perhaps it’s because Diddy and Kanye never really needed to worry about pitch before, but I thought Auto-Tune had been a production staple for years now. Why the sudden surge of interest from some already well established artists? To get the T-Pain effect, it’s not even too tough to do. Where one could actually use some Auto-Tune training is when it comes to trying to make it undetectable, which is definitely not what Kanye was looking for. So congrats to T-Pain for striking while the iron’s hot.
In the end, my commentary on this can be summed up in one word: seriously?
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