• @ShunkW
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    2610 months ago

    No it isn’t.

    • Bizarroland
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      510 months ago

      It can be if you use your imagination.

      But in all seriousness, auto-tune was invented by geologists who realized that they could use math to correct information from seismographs and then they extrapolated that concept to the concept of audio frequencies.

      • @ShunkW
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        210 months ago

        Gonna need a citation for that one because I don’t see it on a quick search for auto tune

        • Bizarroland
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          810 months ago

          Third result on startpage

          https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-auto-tune-1991230

          From 1976 through 1989, Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist in the geophysical industry, working for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics, a company he co-founded to create the world’s first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation.