Hmmm. I had never heard of auto-tune. Not too surprising actually as I am not a big audiophile. So I went to Wikipedia to find out what the %#&&%@ you all were talking about. "Very interesting..." [Laugh-In quote.]
It seems to me that the next big technological revolution will be auto-synch. Singers can do their auto-tuned songs in their recording studios, and then they can do a perfect lip synch on stage, with auto-synch making real-time corrections to their appearance in order to maintain proper vocal/visual synch. Might be ok with broadcast performances, might be trick kin a Live setting. Even better would be some implants in the jaws and mouth, computer controlled, responsive to the piped in sounds the singers are supposed to be making as they pretend to sing. stan On Dec 16, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Marco Alpert wrote: > Thanks for that, John. I've been debating whether to jump in on the Auto-Tune > issue, but since I've spent the last 15 years as the marketing guy for the > company that invented and markets Auto-Tune, I was concerned that it might > come off as a bit defensive. > > Suffice it to say that while it's largely come to popular attention outside > the recording industry as a result of its use as an effect, first in pop > music back in the the Cher "Believe" days, and more recently in hip hop (and > then everything), for every song that you hear using it as an effect, there's > probably a hundred more that use it for its initially intended purpose where > its use is entirely inaudible. And I can tell you that it's *not* just for > the vocally challenged. It's used by many extremely talented vocalists, some > in musical genres far from pop music. (And as a bonus, it gave me the > entirely unexpected opportunity to be quoted in New York Times responding to > Jay-Z: > http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/when-jay-z-hates-your-software/?_r=0 > ) > > - Marco > > > On Dec 16, 2013, at 5:17 AM, John wrote: > >> On 12/15/2013 3:19 AM, David Mann wrote: >>> On Dec 15, 2013, at 6:13 am, Walt <ldott...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> The arts in general are due for a reckoning of some sort. People >>>> can only stand so much auto-tune in their music, and so many >>>> Instagram filters in their images, so many cinematic "reboots" of >>>> 20-year-old movies before they start longing for something more. >>> >>> Trouble is, the current generation is growing up to only know >>> Autotune, Instagram and movie reboots. >>> >>> I went to see The Hobbit yesterday and saw a poster for a Robocop >>> reboot. At this rate I'm going to pack up and run away to live as a >>> hermit on the west coast :( >>> >>> Cheers, Dave >>> >>> >> >> When applied lightly, with a deft hand, Autotune can be a lifesaver ... >> or at least can save a less than perfect vocal performance. Everyone >> gets all wrapped around the axle over the way it's misused & ignore the >> benefits it can have for the vocally challenged among us. >> > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
