Why do singers use autotune?

Brut India

While many actors and singers are trolled for using autotune, Arijit Singh opened up about how the technology is useful in showbiz.

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00:00It was him, actually, who started using autotune.

00:03We do use autotune in Pritam's music.

00:05Except for Sonuji, I guess.

00:07He cannot go out of tune.

00:13Autotune is not a bad thing.

00:16I think it's someone like you who has to come out in the open and say it.

00:22So yeah, okay.

00:23So let me say it now.

00:24So a non-singer cannot become an autotune singer.

00:29It's not possible.

00:33You'll get to know.

00:34It's not right.

00:36What autotune does is,

00:50You can do that.

00:52Also, you can do a little hard tuning.

00:59And there's a setting which is basically just for the tails.

01:16It was him, actually, who started using autotune in a very subtle way.

01:26And that's how a lot of singers started sounding beautiful.

01:30The technical reason for this is that when a singer sings, he sings with emotion.

01:37When he sings with emotion, he's never perfect.

01:41He keeps moving from tune to tune.

01:44Mostly singers.

01:45Except Sonuji, I guess.

01:47He cannot go out of tune, I feel.

01:50The takes which are emotionally good, but tune-wise, they're a little off.

01:55We start tweaking them.

01:57And the emotional takes, the more human we can keep them, the more we have to put in.

02:03It's like, if there's masala, we put it all in.

02:05We can't do that.

02:07So we have to use the autotuner with as much salt as we need in the food.

02:13And we do it on every singer.

02:17Every singer.

02:18If you go to the West also.

02:20They've been doing it for a long time.

02:21It's like Juhaiyya's saying, it's a tool.

02:23Also, to use it as per the rhythm.

02:25It's a processing tool.

02:27Also, the sound changes.

02:29Exactly.

02:30It's a bit...

02:30Sometimes, what we do is, suppose it's Vishalji's song.

02:34Some music directors just don't like this tuning.

02:37Like Mithun Sharma.

02:38He doesn't like it.

02:39Vishal Bhardwaj doesn't like it.

02:41A. R. Rahman.

02:42He doesn't do it now.

02:43He used to do it before, but now he goes with whatever voice is there.

02:48In Preetam Da's music, we do put something or the other in it.

02:51Finally, to make it sound really good.

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