T-Pain is tired of hearing the sound of his own, heavily processed voice. Actually, the Tallahassee, Fla., hip-hop star is tired of hearing everybody else simulating the sound of his synthesized voice ...

“I couldn’t believe it… I didn’t think anyone in their right mind would use it that way.” Auto-Tune is not just the inhuman warbling debuted by Cher in 1998. This staple of today’s pop music is much ...

It took me a long time to get to grips with T-Pain. I had nothing against his cuddly cheeks or tie-dyed dreads. I didn't even mind his silly lyrics about strippers and being "sprung". No, it was the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now, more than 20 years on, Antares has released a vocoder plugin that has Auto-Tune ...

* Photo: Joseph Maida * From Lil Wayne's cyborg-slick singing on "Lollipop" to the Twiki-tweaked vocals of T-Pain, use of the voice-enhancing software Auto-Tune has reached a fever pitch. But it turns ...

Stop Smiling Books/ Melville House; 335 pp. The room contains two turntables and a microphone. Hulking consoles line the walls, covered in dials and gauges and blinking lights, like the bridge of ...

When Andy Hildebrand, a geophysicist who spent decades working in the oil industry, sat down to discuss the next chapter of his life at a dinner party, little did he know that things would turn out ...

Leaving aside the fact that vocoders and Auto-Tune are two totally different technologies — c’mon, Wyclef! — the case made in “Mr. Auto-Tune” has one critical flaw: “Mr. Auto-Tune,” itself, is way ...