T-Pain brought auto-tune to the table, and these 5 rappers ran with it. Auto-tune was something of a taboo in rap, for some it may always be, but for the most part, it's been accepted as a common ...

Let's get this out the way now: T-Pain pioneered the creative use of Auto-Tune in Hip Hop when he treated the pitch correction software as an expressive instrument rather than just a corrective tool.

T-Pain Auto-Tunes Your iPhoneFor the incredible price of just $2.99, you can record your Auto-Tuned voice singing along to classic T-Pain jams like “I’m N Luv (Wit a Stripper).” Jay-Z Fails to Kill ...

Chaka Khan thinks that if you need to use Auto-tune to hit your notes, you should get a job at the Post Office rather than in a recording studio. “There is some great stuff out there and there are ...

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 ...

T-Pain is the King of Auto-Tune, but he admitted that it took the efforts of other artists for his style to be embraced. T-Pain is the first artist that comes to mind when people think of Auto-Tune.

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 ...

Various decades have their musical signature, like the excessive use of synthesizers and hairspray in the 1980s pop music scene. Likewise, the early 2010s was marked by a fairly extreme use of ...

If Mishka the YouTube Husky hadn't already won you over with her well-known singing videos, her latest release -- a video of her Auto-Tuned howling, created using the LaDiDa iPad application -- will d ...

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 ...