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.

He's known for his autotune-enhanced vocals, but T-Pain's "real voice" is stunning the internet. The singer-songwriter—real name Faheem Rasheed Najm—is credited with popularizing the use of autotune ...

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 ...

Demi Lovato was slammed for her use of Auto-Tune on 'The X Factor' USA last night (12.09.12). The 'Skyscraper' hitmaker had agreed with fellow judge Simon Cowell when she criticised pop hopeful Shawn ...

“From Ke$ha to Indie singer Bon Iver to reality sensations like Rebecca Black and Real Housewife Kim Zolciak,” notes WNBC reporter Katie Tur, “artists across ...

It’s a fact: everyone sounds better Autotuned. Smule’s I Am T-Pain app now lets you send autotuned voicemails to friends and family for a small fee. Because there’s no better time than the present to ...

If you’ve ever tried to tune a vocal with a bargain-bin plugin and ended up with something that sounded like a confused dial-up modem, you’re not alone. A lot of budget tools promise “pro tuning,” but ...