How Auto-Tune Works

Pitch correction: it can make terrible singers sound decent, brilliant singer sound mediocre, or Cher sound like a robot. But how does it work? And is it possible to explain that without actually trying to understand Fourier transforms?

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[schmoyoho]

Tom's accidental singing is so beautiful that someone could sneak this into pop radio airplay & no one would BAT AN EYE 💝💖💗

[SuicideBunny]

*Waiting for a Tom Scott album full of educational music like this ...*

[ernesik]

2:13 That damn fly in your room at 3 am

[landonstbase]

"but it can't write a song, some talent's still required"





_Ghost writers have entered the chat_

[SyntheticFuture]

Tom singing? Tom... are you a hostage? Should we send help?

[FlyTechVideos]

That 's' at 'maths' at 1:30 was really sneakily placed

[KuruGDI]

0:52 I totaly expected _Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down_ after this beat ^^

[Bongs]

0:40
Hello
_Hello_
*Hello*

*steps on mine turtle*
oh no
*boom*

[Jonic_P]

GUYS. WE DID IT. WE FINALLY GOT TOM TO SING ON YOUTUBE. BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE THE "MUSIC VIDEO"

[DragoniteSpam]

If Tom says something might as well be magic, it must be the closest thing we've got to _actually_ being magic

[TaranVH]

And here I thought that they were just slicing the audio into a bunch of tiny slices, then repeating or removing some of them

[cagedtomatomilk]

0:52 is the most awkward smile I've ever seen

[Jelkiin]

Tom, try to wear a bit darker red shirt every video until it’s black

[flashbaggins]

Now we need an autotune version of the hit single 'We flew a kite in a public place'

[DoctorX]

"How does Auto-Tune work?"
"Math. Here's a song about it"


I love this

[smartereveryday]

Awesome collaboration with awesome people! Fourier transforms ftw. The idea of pulling a single string out of a guitar chord and tuning it is crazy math. Surely that only works for certain combinations? If they were off-tune harmonics would they be hard to isolate?

[okey-ness]

If music videos were edited like educational videos

[CyprusHartford]

Cool, now I won't sound like someone hitting a refrigerator with a saucepan

[foximacentauri]

Plot twist: Tom talked normally and autotune made him sing.

[XunnnD-hzpi]

1:37 This is my favorite part of the whole video especially the "isolates them"