AUTO-TUNE AND ITS CONTENDERS

Auto-Tune is one of those effects that's in a category of its own. There may be hundreds of EQs, compressors and reverbs to choose from out there, but until Antares' Auto-Tune software made its mark, pitch correction had been a pipe dream for many studio producers. The original intention for the software was for it to do just that - to correct tuning errors in a vocal performance - whether recorded or live - to giving a little more room in the industry to singers who were… well, y'know what we mean.

Once the Antares software showed how viable pitch correction technology could be, other software came along to compete. With the likes of Melodyne, Waves Tune and now many more, we soon arrived at a time when there were many options for turning a sloppy vocal performance into a professional one, and we'll show you many of them through this tutorial, helping you pitch correct vocal performances, whether you're doing so in the studio or in a live context.

But then something strange happened. Just as Auto-Tune did the impossible once, it was about to add a whole new type of sound to the canon of popular music. Cher's 1998 hit “Believe” demonstrated a new usage of the software. By pushing the retune speed into very low settings, and conforming the tuning