And if you crank it up enough, it becomes like a Snapchat filter for your voice.
Depends if you talk about autotune for correction pitch or as a style like rappers do.
“beauty”
And so, as humanity reaches new peaks of digital audio fidelity, people decide to dumb down vocal audio quality.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Ironically, autotune is more akin to pixelating an image.
A bit off-topic, but if you want to hear really good use of autotune, check out Lügen. It means “Lies”. Check out the translation too - the autotune starts right at the moment the singer admits to lying compulsively, even to himself.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the beauty filters were directly inspired by autotune, given that the first (I think?) app was called facetune.
That sounds an awful lot like a portmanteau of facetime and autotune.
I really dislike autotune, especially how it’s used by rappers. T-Pain used autotune a shit ton, and then one day I realised that this is the voice he has.
Why the hell is he using autotune when he has that voice!?
He used it to deliberately sound different, for the sole purpose of standing out from the crowd to get attention. Which he (sadly) succeeded with.
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