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Certif1ed · 09-24-2009, 01:06 AM

Wasn't it Kylie who first got into trouble with early versions of autotuning technology?

Anyway - she soon learned how to sing!

I agree that dependecy on the technology is very bad for popular music, but it takes a LOT more than being able to sing in tune to be a good singer, and music depends on a gazillion things in addition to being in tune.

Before the technology existed, people sang and played "out of tune" (that is, instruments and voices did not pitch to precisely 440hz or whatever) - musicians FELT the music.

ALL singers sing flat. Fact.

I have "perfect pitch", decades worth of vocal training including large-scale choral, opera and solo work and I sing flat*.

*Flat here meaning in terms of pitch (which is all that autotune can fix), not flat in terms of tone, style, or musicianship, which autotune will never fix.

09-24-2009, 01:06 AM	#33 (permalink)
Certif1ed Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 194	Wasn't it Kylie who first got into trouble with early versions of autotuning technology? Anyway - she soon learned how to sing! I agree that dependecy on the technology is very bad for popular music, but it takes a LOT more than being able to sing in tune to be a good singer, and music depends on a gazillion things in addition to being in tune. Before the technology existed, people sang and played "out of tune" (that is, instruments and voices did not pitch to precisely 440hz or whatever) - musicians FELT the music. ALL singers sing flat. Fact. I have "perfect pitch", decades worth of vocal training including large-scale choral, opera and solo work and I sing flat. Flat here meaning in terms of pitch (which is all that autotune can fix), not flat in terms of tone, style, or musicianship, which autotune will never fix.