autotune

[johncomic]

I hope: that autotune is like disco -- something that lends an electronic sameness to popular music, making pretty much all artists sound interchangeable... something that enjoys a brief vogue for a few years [although it feels like it drags on forever] but eventually everyone gets tired of it.

I fear: that autotune is like multitracking or click tracks -- something that is seen as an indispensable tool for making recorded music sound “good”... something that those who record popular music will never voluntarily do without, now that they have it at their disposal.

Time will tell, I suppose...

Comments

[ginsu.livejournal.com]

What's your objection to multitracking?

I see it as much the same as the process you're using for your comic project: layers of work, each of which is developed in specific ways, so that the finished whole will be of hopefully superior merit.

To me, autotuning is quite different: a mechanical remedy for human laziness or lack of chops. This is similar to cartoonists who draw one panel, scan it, copy it, paste it in three more times, type the dialogue above the heads, and call that a strip.