God forbid that someone need to put any actual effort into anything.
Agreed. I hear auto-tune kings and queens in the media, and I am immediately turned off. So is the media. Relief is just a 'click' away.
If you can't sing on pitch, you are not a singer. Auto-tune may help you stay on pitch, but it also suppresses and even remove a lot of the nuances that a good singer will put into the music.
For an example, I'll use a very old song, Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long". It's close to the beginning, so you don't have to wait a long time for it.
He sings, "You were tired, and you want to be free." The word "Tired" starts flat and as he holds it, the note ever so slowly approaches being in tune. The dissonance creates the tension and expresses the pain of his woman leaving him. Auto-tune would have wiped that out.
Using auto-tune would be like putting strings on the guitar that are impossible to bend.
I play sax, flute, wind synth, guitar, bass, drums, keys, and vocals. Voice was the hardest instrument of all to learn, it took time, it took practice and although barely adequate came quickly, it took a long time to become decent.
On the other hand, some technology can be good. One good example is BiaB's harmonizing feature. When making a backing track for my duo, I can put the top note of a string, horn, or other instrument into the melody track, and have BiaB harmonize it. BiaB does that job using the rules I learned in theory class.
Some tools are good, some are bad, and some are either good or bad depending on the situation and how extensively they are used.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it
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