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While listening to a work-in-progress version of one of our songs, Kris noticed that I had put a ridiculous amount of retuning on his vocals. It glitched and skipped notes like crazy, searching for the correct pitch. The glitching sound is called, in the autotune manual, "The Cher Effect". We call all audible effects of the autotuning process "glorping". I eventually deinstalled the plugin because a) it was pirated, and I want to own the software I use to produce music and b) autotune seems repulsive to me. I associate it with cynical commercial "bands" created by labels and producers. If you listen to the vocal track off any given Avril Lavigne song, there is obvious glorping. Aphex twin abuses glorping, which I think is the only valid use of it. Just sing in tune, people! Um, I retuned his vocals because they were pretty out and it was annoying us on repeated listens. (singing in tune is actually kind of tricky) They were scratch - just holding a place in the mix so we know kind of how the vocals will sit. It's kind of backwards to build a mix and then drop in vocals, since they're basically the centerpiece. Yet, that is how we tried mixing for years. Ah well, live and learn.
I love the synthcart. It is everything I liked about the Atari (the noises), following me into the field of music. (I threw together today's mp3 with it) Thank you, Paul Slocum! I also like his band, Tree Wave! He's running some kind of custom tweaked synthcarty-like thing, a C=64, and a printer which he has re-engineered to play music. He's a man after my own heart and musical aesthetic. Someday we will have the synthcart playing along with my 6581 as well as whatever powers the Machinedrum and Monomachine. Sadly, I threw out my Epson LQ-510 and have not the acumen to make it sing anything on purpose anyhow, other than with the Man or Astro Man technique. |
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