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The following sentence might come as a huge shock to teens and Millennials, so stop tweeting for a second, kids, and get prepared for a totally outlandish statement. Here it is: Once upon a time, pop singers were actual singers.

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Yes, I know. That’s hard to comprehend since the pop charts are now dominated by artists who use Auto-Tune, the software plug-in that corrects the pitch of those who can’t really cut it in the vocal department and turns their vocals into robo-voices. While everyone under 30 recovers from that revelation, here’s what I mean by “actual singers.”

Back in the day, pop artists like Frank Sinatra and the Beatles used to be able to record albums in just a few days. Country musicians like Patsy Cline and George Jones trudged through grueling tours in out-of-the-way rural locales yet still missed nary a note. R&B musicians like the Supremes and the Four Tops navigated their way through complex choreography but still belted out songs out like their lives depended on it.

And while today, we still have singers with massively impressive pipes, a whole lotta them could never have rocked it for real like the Motown gang. These days, artists are able to get by on looks, publicity and aid from Auto-Tune.

You can hear the robotic, processed sound of the plug-in on recent hit records like “Blame It” by Jamie Foxx and T-Pain, “Just Dance” by Lady Gaga and “Right Now (Na Na Na)” by Akon. It’s also heard on tracks by Kanye West, Britney Spears and Lil Wayne. When West attempted to sing “Love Lockdown” without the plug-in on “Saturday Night Live,” the results were none too impressive and got ridiculed online. You can hear 10 examples of “Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music” on Hometracked, a blog geared toward home recording enthusiasts.

Paula Abdul also uses Auto-Tune on her new song, “Here for the Music,” which she performed (i.e. lip-synched) on “American Idol” May 6. It was evident just how artificial Abdul’s vocals were when she was followed by Gwen Stefani, who gave a warts-and-all live vocal on No Doubt’s “Just a Girl.”

Country and rock singers are said to use Auto-Tune to protect themselves from hitting bum notes in concert. Pop singers use it when they have a hard time singing while executing complicated dance moves (raising the question as to why they’re letting their dancing take precedence over their music). Auto-Tune has become so ubiquitous that indie rockers Death Cab for Cutie wore blue ribbons at this year’s Grammy Awards ceremony to protest its overuse.

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Building the ‘perfect’ beast
The prevalence of Auto-Tune comes from two longstanding pop music traditions — the desire to alter the human voice and the quest for perfection at the expense of real talent and emotion.

The first of these can lead to inspiring moments, as the New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones noted in an essay last year. Pioneering voice tweakers include producer Quincy Jones, who punched up Lesley Gore’s vocals with double tracking on “It’s My Party,” and George Martin, who gave us a childlike sped-up John Lennon on “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” Later on, Peter Frampton wowed audiences with his talk box guitar effect and a decade later, vocals were being put through harmonizers to get jarring outer space effects.

Of course, to pull off any of those effects, you had still had to be able to sing. With Auto-Tune you don’t.

Then there’s the quest for perfection. By the 1970s, producers were able to edit or splice together vocal takes from various tracks and eventually they started to use hardware that corrected vocal pitch to create “perfect” performances. When the sound editing program Pro Tools became the industry norm in the 1990s, kludged-together vocal tracks became the norm.

But too much meticulousness in pop music strips away passion. And the very reason we listen to music, noted the late rock critic Lester Bangs, is to hear “passion expressed.” Auto-Tune makes people sound like robots. And if there’s no feeling, why listen at all?

Some people apparently aren’t listening anymore. Sales of major label CDs are down. But more authentic sounding music still has fans. Paste magazine recently reported that indie music is selling more, and the one area of commercial music that’s remained popular is “American Idol,” where you can’t fake it (unless you’re Paula Abdul).

The producers speak
A lot of producers like to use Auto-Tune because it saves time, says producer Craig Street, who has worked with Norah Jones, k. d. lang and Cassandra Wilson. “If you have a smaller budget what you’re doing is trying to cram a lot of work into a small period of time,” Street says. “So you may not have as much time to do a vocal.”

Craig Anderton, a producer and music writer, observes that Auto-Tune “gets no respect because when it’s done correctly, you can’t hear that it’s working.

“If someone uses it tastefully just to correct a few notes here and there, you don’t even know that it’s been used so it doesn’t get any props for doing a good job,” Anderton notes. “But if someone misuses it, it’s very obvious — the sound quality of the voice changes and people say ‘Oh, it’s that Auto-Tune — it’s a terrible thing that’s contributing to the decline and fall of Western music as we know it.”

One producer who dislikes Auto-Tune is Jon Tiven, who cut his musical teeth in the punk rock era with his band the Yankees, and went on to produce soul singers Wilson Pickett and Don Covey as well as Pixies founder Frank Black. Tiven thinks Auto-Tune has led to the destruction of great singing.

“I don’t know how many levels you want to drop the bar for what it takes to become a successful musical person,” Tiven says. “You could sacrifice on some levels, but it would seem to me one of the first things you would really be hard pressed to sacrifice is if the person could sing in tune or not.”

Street says the like or dislike of Auto-Tune largely comes down to aesthetics, and likens people’s feelings about listening to unnatural sounds with the way some people feel about unnatural body modifications, such as breast implants.

And that makes sense. After all, today we have models and actors whose faces and bodies were never intended by nature, reality TV that’s not real, and sports “heroes” whose strength comes from pills not practice. It’s totally understandable that the commercial pop world would embrace an unnatural aesthetic. Whether audiences will someday want pop singers who are first and foremost singers remains to be seen.

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Auto tuning is an audio processor which uses a proprietary device to measure and after that pitch in vocal and instrumental music recording and performances. It is the process of using auto tune apps or devices for tuning something automatically and also allows to enables the correction of an out of tune vocal performance.

Auto Tune is one specific piece of software, pitch correction is usually referred to as Auto Tune, while Voice Transmission is normally increasing or decreasing the pitch of a recording.

Every one of us like to perform different hits. While some peoples do not shy to reveal their talent to the public and others elect to leave it in the bathroom. The difference between Auto Tune, pitch correction and voice transformation the vocals should be cleared.

Auto tune apps are the real game changers that lets the film actors into singers and allows them to challenge award winning singers and artists and all the all credit goes none other than the Auto Tune.

List of Top Auto Tune Apps

It is really a fun to turn your untrained voice into super cool professional like melody with the help of auto tune apps. The professional auto tuners can be expensive too, but don’t worry because there are also the plenty of apps that allows you to tune your voice for free.

Now there is no need to get expensive music systems or software, your smartphone with a tuning app installed in it, is all you need. So Let’s have a look at the top 10 interesting and super quick auto tuning apps that will definitely bring out the Michael Jackson and Madonna from you.

1- AutoRap by Smule

AutoRap by smule is an auto tuning app that lets you to change the words you sing in the form of authentic rap due to its rapification technology. The app is based on auto tune technology and allows you to create high quality rap songs. Due to its amazing features (mentioned below), we listed this top of all auto tune apps.

The app features two different modes, talk mode and rap mode, (i) the talk mode enables the users to dictate the lyrics of the future song and the utility is featured in it which will match the speech to the rhythm; (ii) the rap mode is dedicated to Rap artists and it features the utility designated by the bit. The app easily matches the syllables and matches the rapper connected to your voice.

Features:

  • Talk Mode
  • Rap Competitions
  • Top Rappers list
  • Share with others

The Smule Auto tuning is the perfect auto tuning app. It is the one of the breakthrough in the musical industry.

Price: Free+
Price: Free+

2- Tune Me

Tune Me is an auto tuning app that easily allows you to record your favorite songs, the auto tune app records track with pitch shifts and allows you to sing like a pro.

The pitch correction is embedded in it that allows you to easily alter any sound so that your voice may sounds like any popular pop stars. The app is the best hip hop and R&B recording studio.

As comparted to the other auto tune apps, it features the auto pitch effect that gives the professional look to your voice. The auto tune app also has freestyle mode, background voice effects and a wave form display, it also allows you to adjust the vocal and the background beat volume.

Features:

  • Fast Processing
  • Waveform Display
  • Calibration
  • Adjust Volume and Speed separately
Price: Free+

You can also use this app for your personal entertainment. It even allows you to record and load any tracks and also lets you to share your personal creativity on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

You will also love our best karaoke apps.

3- Star Maker Free to Sing

Star Maker Free to Sing is one of the perfect auto tuning apps for android devices that features the pitches with 500 tracks, while this app also lets you to select your favorite song from the myriad collection of best songs. You can also purchase new canto, sing, record and share your songs with your friends.

Star Maker allows you to sing song and save in MP3 format and then do the auto tuning of the pitches, even you can synchronize your voice with your favorite artists.

Features:

  • Record and edit your karaoke songs
  • collab with others
  • Powerful recommendation engine
  • Sing only the best part of the song
  • Quality sound

This app features the cutting edge technology of voice enhancement, while this app also allows you to share your MP3 singing audio via Facebook and Twitter.

Price: Free+
Price: Free+

4- Voloco Auto Voice Tune + Harmony

Voloco Auto Voice Tune + Harmony is the real time voice processing that empowers the users to connect the voice recording with an automatic tuner. It combines automatic tuning and vocoding. You just only need to pick any song from your library and this app will automatically guess the key and pitch of the song and on the spot correct your voice to that key.

Features:

  • Big Chrous
  • Automatic Tuning
  • Hard Tune
  • SuperVocoder
  • Compress recording both in AAC and MP4 formats

The four awesome effects featured by the Voloco are Big Chorus, Hard Tune, Natural Tune and Super Vocoder. The app allows you to record the vox and adjust the intonation of the selected music. It also allows you to record the video of your-self while singing and share it on the social media.

Price: Free+
Price: Free+

5- Speaker Studio

Speaker Studio features audio FX Library that controls all mix and volume channel independently. The unique feature of this app is that it enables you to transform your device into a radio studio which empowers you to broadcast live or prerecorded podcast and you can also add sound and track effects.

The also offer you a live chat box that allows you to remain connected with your audience in real time.

Features:

  • Record or Sing Live
  • User-friendly Interface
  • Live Chatbox to get in touch with fans
  • Auto post on social media
  • Mix you voice with tracks and sound effects

This app also allows you to start with the audio blog. The interface is user friendly and easy to use. No doubt that it is one of the best auto tuning apps for android. They plenty of new and unique features help it to beat other pro auto tune apps.

Price: Free
Price: Free+

6- Spongify by Smule

Spongify by Smule is one of the amazing and interesting auto tune apps. Riffer vst win download. The app features the ability to turn the normal speech into the proper song in seconds, the auto app also allow you to turn your spoken words into the song.

It is built in, use to easy and fun application that allows you to compose funny songs and share it with your friends as joke, create and send various funny songs of your composition.

Features:

  • Simple and easy to use interface
  • Speech into Rap or song
  • Share with friends

Once you are done with your track, you can send it through email and can also share it on the social media like Facebook and Twitter. But one of the draw back about this app provide only few free minutes to record. It is one of the most popular and free auto tuning apps for android.

See our review on Karaoke Sing and Record App.

7- Micdroid

Micdroid auto tuning app is very similar to the I Am T-Pain Program app, because of this feature you will always get into nodes. The app features variety of options to correct the tune and pitch of your sound. It also keeps the track of your recorded songs in its database.

The auto tune app also deploys the automatic pitch correction and recording of your emails. It also enables you to block or unblock adds through its settings, while you can also utilize your recording as your ringtone.

Features:

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  • Automatic Pitch Correction
  • Send Recordings via email
  • Set records as ringtone
  • Pitch correction while recording

The singer app come up with various options that enable you to correct your voice, keep record of your recordings and share It on the social platforms.

Price: Free

8- Glee Karaoke

This app is perfect for the ones, who prefer to sing karaoke. The Glee App utilizes the recording function. For each recorded song you will be granted some points for which you may load new songs.

The app also allows you to create your group and invite your friends to join that group. You can also recount others your record by posting an entry to Twitter or Facebook. Auto tune apps like this, can correct vox also.

The app is unique in the fact that it corrects your vox so you will always be sound exclusive, while you can also listen to the songs performed by several voices simultaneously. The app also organizes the competition for best performance and the two winners are selected on each best performance. It is one the unique auto tuning apps as compared to other apps.

9- The Voice Sing and Connect

The Voice Sing and Connect app will give you the feel of a star. This app is bee developed from the TV show “The Voice”. The app features an embedded auto tone functionality that improves the quality of the sound.

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The auto tune app is a form of Karaoke app that senses you like you are been performing on the voice. The app possesses the myriad range of the voice effects ,while it also allows you to share your voice with your dear ones.

Features:

  • Sing like a star
  • Record songs a music videos
  • Watch other recordings
  • Auto Tune
  • Pitch Pointer
  • A range of audio effects

The voice sing and connect come up with stylish and interactive interface.

Price: Free+
Price: Free+

10- Perfect Vocal Free

The Perfect Vocal Free app ensures you that your sound will be clean in any key. Just select the desired pitch and the app will do anything for you.

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As compared to the other many auto tune apps some of the unique features of the app are customize the tonality, correction of the format, configure the speed of the sound, set the recordings as the ring tones and while it also allows you to share your recording.

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