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The name Autotune is a play on words 'out of tune'. (eviltoast.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It can be if you use your imagination.

But in all seriousness, auto-tune was invented by geologists who realized that they could use math to correct information from seismographs and then they extrapolated that concept to the concept of audio frequencies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gonna need a citation for that one because I don't see it on a quick search for auto tune

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Third result on startpage

https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-auto-tune-1991230

From 1976 through 1989, Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist in the geophysical industry, working for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics, a company he co-founded to create the world's first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation.