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                               But is it music?

I'm thinking Bunny would let me melt bismuth in her pans [1] before she would
accept Melodyne [2] (link via Instapundit [3]) as a valid music making tool.
It definitely looks more flexible than Auto-Tune [4] (say, add a harmonizing
vocal track only to words sung in B, for instance). The vocals that are
“corrected” are still noticeable—it's just a different effect than the
robotic reverberations of Auto-Tune. Don't get me wrong, it's still
noticeable, but it isn't … um … as tinny? Robotic? Computerized? as Auto-
Tune.

So … Tool? Crutch? [5] Does it depend upon your viewpoint? As a non-musician,
I find Melydyne [6] to be an incredible tool to allow people who otherwise
can't carry a tune to create music. But Bunny, having had musical training,
might think differently (I can relate—I hate PHP [7] yet it allows people who
aren't programmers write programs, for better but usually worse).

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/06/21.1
[2] http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2015/06/14/celemony-melodyne/?singlepage=true
[3] http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/209579/
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2009/11/02.1
[6] http://www.celemony.com/en/melodyne/what-is-melodyne
[7] http://phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com/

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