Kanye Undoes Auto-Tune On Jay-Z’s New Album
In confirmation that there is a God above who loves us very much, Kanye West has decided to go back and cut the Auto-Tune from Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3.
TC Introduces VoiceTone Synth Pedal
Check out TC’s new VoiceTone Synth box for vocal effects like AutoTuning, vocoder, distortion, lo-fi and more.
Death Cab For Cutie Fight Auto-Tune Abuse
Ha. Right after I posted the story on Auto-Tune coming to the iPhone, Kyle Starr shot me an email about Deathcab fighting the noblest of musical battles: From MTV.com: Death Cab For Cutie Raise Awareness About Auto-Tune Abuse ‘Enough is enough,’ frontman Ben Gibbard says of the digital voice manipulation. Death Cab for Cutie [...]
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 [...]
VisualVox Polyphonic 0.9 – Should Melodyne Be Worried?
It’s been only a few weeks since NAMM 2009 and Celemony’s long-awaited announcement of Melodyne Editor; the first product to feature DNA, or Direct Note Access, for polyphonic audio manipulation. Anxious customers are still sitting on their hands for Editor to hit store shelves, and now a small independent plug-in operation has released VisualVox Polyphonic [...]
Brian Eno on AutoTune
Here’s Brian Eno’s quick commentary on the use of Auto-Tune as a creative tool. Keep in mind that this Eno recording was posted back in 2006, before the hip-hop hijack of autotune. I’ve been actually growing a bit tired of the effect myself. We used to call it the “Cher” effect, then it became T-Pain, [...]
Wax Pick: Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak
<A HREF=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fwaxwires-20%2F8014%2F29af6d72-6258-4ed6-a12e-483fa12dba6e&Operation=NoScript” mce_HREF=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fwaxwires-20%2F8014%2F29af6d72-6258-4ed6-a12e-483fa12dba6e&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.com Widgets</A> Kanye’s new album, 808s & Heartbreak, is $3.99 on Amazon right now. If you can stand the autotune, the beats are pretty good. Download the whole album here: Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak
Melodyne Direct Note Access
I just posted about the Beatles’ chord getting decoded, and here’s the software behind the process. A lot of this news is a bit old, but I’m taking these first few days of the site launch to catch you all up on stories I’ve been sitting on for the past year or so.
There are some interesting videos up on the Celemony site about Melodyne DNA.
