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Re:Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect by coglethorpe on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @10:16AM (#475238)
What I found interesting is that it was the way the tool was used differently than the investor's intention that made it so popular.
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Re:Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect by parenthesis on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @10:31AM (#475264)
That is not uncommon in the history of music technology.

For example, the Roland TB-303 "was originally marketed to guitarists for bass accompaniment while practicing alone" [Wikipedia]. But what we got from it — in the end — was acid house.

The vocoder was originally developed with telecommunications applications in mind, not Kraftwerk.

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