auto-tune

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See also: autotune

English

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Etymology

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From auto- +‎ tune, a trademark registered to Antares Audio Technologies.

Noun

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auto-tune (uncountable)

  1. (music) An audio processor that corrects the pitch of a recorded track, also used to distort vocals in electronic music.

Verb

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auto-tune (third-person singular simple present auto-tunes, present participle auto-tuning, simple past and past participle auto-tuned)

  1. (transitive) To tune (an engine, industrial process, etc.) automatically.
  2. (music, transitive) 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.
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