American Idol has already run eight seasons. Since its debut in 2002, watching non-singers belting out of tune has become an amusing addiction. When Karaoke was introduced in the 80's from Japan, it ...

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.

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 ...