Not quite frontpage kind of news but well worth a look, from Slashdot news... the kind of thing that makes me hate pop music so much.
"Sometimes technology is a good thing, and sometimes it ends up in a hardware device called an autotuner. Apparently, it allows real-time pitch correction. They are actually being used at concerts. I think we all realize that some singers sound different -- much different -- live than they do on CD's, but this just seems so, so, what's the word: fake?"
/.: http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/26/1710251.shtml?tid=137&tid=141&tid=188
Story: http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030825.gtsinging/BNStory/Technology/
"Sometimes technology is a good thing, and sometimes it ends up in a hardware device called an autotuner. Apparently, it allows real-time pitch correction. They are actually being used at concerts. I think we all realize that some singers sound different -- much different -- live than they do on CD's, but this just seems so, so, what's the word: fake?"
/.: http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/26/1710251.shtml?tid=137&tid=141&tid=188
Story: http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030825.gtsinging/BNStory/Technology/