Poll: Your view on auto-tune

[Wolfram23]

Must die in fire, because of all the stupid ass pop songs that suck balls use it.

However, sounds good in a selection of songs.


EDIT: Can't forget Benni

EDIT 2: Oh dur and of course probably one of the first people to really use auto tuning, Daft Punk

 

[No_Remainders]

The problem I have with auto-tune is as follows:

It makes people sound literally perfect. It gives them the ability to hit any note they want. It's HORRIBLE.

Nobody can ACTUALLY hold a perfect note all the time, it's just not possible. Auto-tune makes that possible, and while that might be seen as a good thing, it's actually annoyingly perfect.

It irritates me.

 

[Macabre9037]

I think there is a few genres in which it can work but I only like it when used for effect, not to fix ones voice. "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap, for instance is good auto-tune.

 

[Jekken6]

It's only good in those youtube parody songs people do, like the Gingers have souls one or bed intruder.

 

[HTMhender]

What many of you don't realize is that nearly every producer uses an auto tuner to touch up a artist's vocals. You still have to be able to sing... like you have to be a GOOD singer, for an auto tuner to actually work properly. That is, unless the producer actually composes every single note and maps your voice to them. Rarely in music do you hear this.

I personally use an auto tuner when recording my music. I place my recorded vocals on a track with the plugin on it, and play them back. The auto tuner quickly shows me the places in which I made a singing error (auto tuner hits the wrong note and/or jitters), and then I record that part over, until the auto tuner picks up every single note how I intended it to.

I then REMOVE the auto tuner, listen to the vocals without it, and realize, "these are very similar; the one with the plain vocals sounds very good, but the one with the auto tuner sounds perfect." The auto tuner I use is not noticeable UNLESS you are a bad singer. Auto tuners are designed to make great singers sound even better, so their music's quality is as good as it can possibly be.

 

[HTMhender]

I am positive many of the artists you listen to use a type of auto tuner and you don't even notice it.

 

[Bernzz]

Autotune can be used for many things.

Spoiler: Wikipedia says...

"Auto-Tune uses a phase vocoder to correct pitch in vocal and instrumental performances. It is used to disguise off-key inaccuracies and mistakes, and has allowed singers to perform perfectly tuned vocal tracks without needing to sing in tune. While its main purpose is to slightly bend sung pitches to the nearest true semitone (to the exact pitch of the nearest tone in traditional equal temperament), Auto-Tune can be used as an effect to distort the human voice when pitch is raised/lowered significantly."

Not only is it used for that electronic, multi-layered voiced that seems so popular, it can also be used to make the studio version of any song sound perfect. To correct small mistakes in the singer's voice, or the instruments.

So my answer is: depends. Mutli-layered, overused, electronic crap? Kill it with fire.
Slightly correcting tones in a song to make it sound better, without it being a noticeable effect at all? Don't stop.