T-Pain Vs. VOCODER

@ stratman9: you can preach the gospel of Fodera all you want, but that doesn't make it right. you say that vocoders apply formants from one source to another carrier source. but think about what that means. it really means that you are applying a series of pitch changes; some low shelf, some high shelf, and some band. so: in graphical terms, a vocoder simply deletes, minimizes, or increases the pitch of each portion of wave to match limits of the carrier source. auto-tune does the same.

Fodera offers a good explanation of why auto-tune is NOT a vocoder. Vocoders apply formants from one source (i.e. speech) to another 'carrier' source (e.g. a synthesizer). What auto-tune does is alter the pitch of a single source (e.g. voice). I gave the example of Daft Punk vs T-Pain to show how different a vocoder sounds from auto-tune.

t-pain an ok actor

The following other pieces of music technology are often confused with the vocoder: the Talk box (Sonovox), Auto-Tune, linear prediction vocoders, ring modulation, speech synthesis and comb filter. This is auto-tune.

talkbox = an intruments sound is sent through a tube into your mouth, unique sounds are created by talking and shaping your mouth differently into a mircophone so everyone can hear it.

yes, I will explain in simple english.

vocoder = makes your voice match notes played on whatever instrument that's plugged into the vocoder. there are also effects that can be added to your voice, it could sound alot like auto-tune.

auto-tune= automatic pitch correction to nearest note of selected key. Just a unit or a computer program, no instruments involved.

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It's called an AUTO-TUNER, not a vocoder. tsk tsk

Auto-Tune is the name of a proprietary audio processor. In generic terms, that processor is called a vocoder.