When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now, more than 20 years on, Antares has released a vocoder plugin that has Auto-Tune ...

* Photo: Joseph Maida * From Lil Wayne's cyborg-slick singing on "Lollipop" to the Twiki-tweaked vocals of T-Pain, use of the voice-enhancing software Auto-Tune has reached a fever pitch. But it turns ...

It took me a long time to get to grips with T-Pain. I had nothing against his cuddly cheeks or tie-dyed dreads. I didn't even mind his silly lyrics about strippers and being "sprung". No, it was the ...

DAVE TOMPKINS’ new book is titled How to Wreck a Nice Beach, but it has nothing to do with the BP oil spill, or any coast at all. Instead, the phrase he chose for his book title is how the words “how ...

Bizarrely, around the same time that the original Orange Vocoder first appeared, so did a little product known as Auto-Tune. It didn’t take very long with producers to discover the effect now commonly ...