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 ...

Himesh Reshammiya has addressed the use of Auto-Tune in contemporary music, explaining that the technology is not necessarily ...

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 ...

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 ...

He says he's known he's been "doing the right thing from the jump" & isn't bothered by the "jokes & comments" throughout his career. There was a time when T-Pain was consistently ridiculed for his use ...

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 ...

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 ...