Once a solution for amateur, off-key singers on karaoke nights, Auto-Tune and other voice tuning software have progressed from the club to the recording studio but never beyond sounding artificial.

If you’ve ever tried to tune a vocal with a bargain-bin plugin and ended up with something that sounded like a confused dial-up modem, you’re not alone. A lot of budget tools promise “pro tuning,” but ...

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 ...