Her instincts proved right. "Believe" topped charts around the world, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1999 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linda Diaz and Arthur Buckner uncover how Auto-Tune became THE in-demand tool for studios. Thanks to artists like T-Pain, Cher, and Kanye West, Auto-Tune went from being an industry secret to an ...

YouTube Music's new AI labels skip songs fixed with Auto-Tune or AI mastering, which YouTube classes as No Gen AI. Undeclared ...

Auto-Tune is everywhere on TikTok, but has it changed the way we hear music? This video explores why the effect became so ...

As he was interviewing artists and inventors for a six-part docuseries on the intersection of technology and music, Mark Ronson noticed a recurring theme of visionary artists taking technological ...

In the new Netflix series, This Is Pop, T-Pain claims that Usher told him that his auto-tuned songs "f----- up music for real singers" T-Pain is opening up about how his iconic Auto-Tune music led to ...

T-Pain has a rare distinction in music: When you think of one musical instrument, tool, or innovation, his name is the one that immediately comes to mind. Of course, this is due to him popularizing ...

If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...

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 ...

T-Pain put the world in the producer's chair by introducing Auto-Tune to the masses and now he wants to pull back the music industry's curtain even more. As the 37-year-old rapper gets comfortable in ...