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I also quite liked the autotuned Steve Jobs talking about the i pad at the Macworld expo keynote:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=6001
And, fully in the knowledge that I am likely to be mercilessly flamed for saying this:
I actually quite liked the boldness of the autotune effect when it was used for the very first time in that way on that (otherwise awful) Cher song. Dare I say it, for a pop track, it was used interestingly and with a little bit of taste.. And at least they bothered to take care to quantize the pitch properly so that the note jumps were nicely in rhythm and all in the correct scale of the song. Not to mention the fact that it only appeared as an effect in sparing doses throughout the song as opposed to mercilessly from start to finish...
These days of course, just like the rest of us, 'that' effect to me is like fingernails down a blackboard.. Not just because it's been overused ad nauseum, but also because people don't seem to know what a scale is anymore. Every time I hear a melody where half the notes have been quantized to a note that isn't in the scale, it's like a little stab of pain straight into my ears. Or even worse, when the singer's vibrato is just transformed into clumsy semitone wobbling, ruining any sense of groove that the melody may have had left.. I mean seriously people, if you really still want to use this effect, then at least put the work in and do it properly. Sheesh.

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link:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=530399&messageID=2603608
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