There are few musical technologies that are as ubiquitous, maligned and misunderstood as Antares’ Auto-Tune. What was conceived in 1997 as a discrete tool for cleaning up vocals and optimizing the ...

If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...

Typically, the music-streaming public remains at arm’s length when it comes to tricks and tips that artists use in the recording studio — it’s too nerdy, too complicated, and only useful to obsessives ...

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 ...