How Two Programs Altered Music and Photography
07 June 2011
Auto-Tune has changed the music recording business
BARBARA KLEIN: I’m Barbara Klein.
STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS, in VOA Special English. Today we talk about two hugely influential computer software tools. Auto-Tune is a software program that can correct the sound quality of musical recordings. Adobe Photoshop is a computer editing program for digital images.
These programs have changed the way people make music and take pictures. Their effects can be experienced in nearly all current popular music and digital photography.
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BARBARA KLEIN: The best way to explain how Auto-Tune works is to listen to an example of its pitch correction ability. That was an example of a singer purposely performing off key. The recording came from the company Antares Audio Technologies, which makes Auto-Tune. Here is the same song after being corrected with Auto-Tune.
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STEVE EMBER: Marco Alpert works at the California-based company. We asked him to explain how Auto-Tune works.
MARCO ALPERT: “At its simplest level, basically Auto-Tune is constantly monitoring the pitch of whatever it is you are tuning, let’s assume it’s a voice for the purpose of this. It’s listening to the pitch that the voice is singing and it’s comparing that pitch to what’s called the target pitch.”
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