auto-tune
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See also: autotune
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
auto- + tune, a trademark registered to Antares Audio Technologies.
Noun[edit]
- (music) An audio processor that corrects the pitch of a recorded track, also used to distort vocals in electronic music.
Verb[edit]
auto-tune (third-person singular simple present auto-tunes, present participle auto-tuning, simple past and past participle auto-tuned)
- (transitive) To tune (an engine, industrial process, etc.) automatically.
- (music) To correct the pitch of a vocal or instrumental performance.
- 2023 July 10, Zachary Woolfe, “Review: Ted Hearne’s Sweet, Sad American Elegy”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The singing is sometimes pure and sometimes processed into exaggeratedly AutoTuned “Alvin and the Chipmunks” automation.