In Reply to: RE: I think you misunderstood posted by Todd Krieger on November 13, 2014 at 19:25:26:
"This is maybe the crux of the disagreement. Auto-tuned clips *can* contain out-of-tune components. The key is the *locking* on the notes, which is totally absent when the app is not applied."
First of all, this is not the crux of the disagreement. The crux of the disagreement is that your claims about auto-tune are baseless, they are entirely based on your "best guess". That is a fact, not an opinion.
Secondly, auto-tune does not leave notes out of tune when applied, that's the whole point. It can be set to engage in different ways, but if a note is not perfectly in tune, it is not being processed by auto-tune, period.
Thirdly, what you call "locking" on the notes is a steady pitch without vibrato. Yes of course something that is auto-tuned sounds like that. But most singers don't use vibrato on every note and most are capable of holding a steady pitch, which also sounds like that.
"I've stated in the past, Elton John is a very pitch-accurate singer. But I don't hear any "locking effect" in his "The Diving Board" album.... There is some belief that a pitch accurate singer would be difficult to distinguish from an Auto-Tuned one, but it's rather easy..... A lot easier than to distinguish one Auto-Tuned singer from another."
No human is pitch-accurate in the way that auto-tune is. That is why pitch-correction affects any recording it is applied to whether a good singer or bad (to keep it on singers). That is also why it may be used on a recording of someone with excellent pitch, and why its use is not a reflection of someone's abilities.
Dave
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- RE: I think you misunderstood - David Smith 07:44:12 11/14/14 (4)
- RE: I think you misunderstood - Todd Krieger 14:47:45 11/14/14 (3)
- RE: I think you misunderstood - David Smith 16:44:49 11/14/14 (2)
- RE: I think you misunderstood - Todd Krieger 17:06:31 11/14/14 (1)
- RE: I think you misunderstood - David Smith 17:11:35 11/14/14 (0)