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 ...

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.

The debate over the use of auto-tune refuses to die down in the music industry. Over the years, the tool to correct singers’ pitch and voice has been used a bit too frequently, say critics. The ...