Auto-Tune PBS Airdate: June 30, 2009 NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON: 'Our love was like a supernova,' Yeah, I sing. 'In the nebula of my soul.' Okay, I'm not great. 'But now I find her heart is like a big black hole.' All right, I'm terrible. But here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better? ANDY HILDEBRAND (Antares Audio Technologies): We can fix Neil. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON: This guy invented a way to do it. ANDY HILDEBRAND: We can fix Neil's pitch. Auto-Tune & Vocal Processing Tools by Antares > Products. He's still going to sound like Neil, though. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON: Electrical engineer and inventor Andy Hildebrand designs pitch-correction software. He calls it Auto-Tune. 'Pitch correction?' Is that a euphemism for 'fixing bad singers?' ANDY HILDEBRAND: Yes, we fix bad singers. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON: I visited Andy at Antares Audio Technologies in Scotts Valley California, where he and engineer Justin Malo. JUSTIN MALO: Hey, Neil. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON.showed me how it works. ANDY HILDEBRAND: Great. There you go. You did that. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON: That wavy line represents the exact frequency of my voice. This line shows where a perfect A should be, so, not too bad. ANDY HILDEBRAND: He's right dead nuts on in tune. Look at that. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON: So how does a computer know that? ANDY HILDEBRAND: When you hear A, you're hearing 440 vibrations per second. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON: So somebody at the beginning of time said 440 vibrations per second is an A? ANDY HILDEBRAND: A. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON: So, if you sing or play a pitch at 440 cycles per second, the computer calls it an A and it rests on this line. B-flat would go on the line above it, G-sharp below, and so on. 'But now I find her heart.' When you're out of tune, the notes don't fall so neatly onto the lines of the grid. That's awful. '.black hole.' ANDY HILDEBRAND: Well, it's creative, it's creative. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON: '.supernova.' Those lines are me singing the word 'super.' My pitch is all over the place. If anything, it's closest to this note, here. JUSTIN MALO: Neil, you sang an F, which normally is okay, if you're in the key of F. And we're not, so we moved your F to an E. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON: 'Supernova.' So Justin gently nudges it down to where an E would be. You're changing the frequency of the sound that came out of my vocal cords. JUSTIN MALO: Actually, yes. ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS ( Audio recording):'Christmas, Christmas.' NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON: Changing pitch isn't new. You can change someone's voice by fast forwarding on a tape recorder, but you'd sound like. ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS ( Audio recording): 'Christmas, Christmas time is here.' NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON.well, a chipmunk. Pitch correction software lets you change the pitch. .while keeping the essential tone of a voice the same. And so, although few engineers are willing to admit it, pitch correction software, like Auto-Tune, has become an indispensable tool in most recording studios.
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