While many actors and singers are trolled for using autotune, Arijit Singh opened up about how the technology is useful in showbiz.
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00:00It was him, actually, who started using autotune.
00:03We do use autotune in Pritam's music.
00:05Except for Sonuji, I guess.
00:07He cannot go out of tune.
00:13Autotune is not a bad thing.
00:16I think it's someone like you who has to come out in the open and say it.
00:22So yeah, okay.
00:23So let me say it now.
00:24So a non-singer cannot become an autotune singer.
00:29It's not possible.
00:33You'll get to know.
00:34It's not right.
00:36What autotune does is,
00:50You can do that.
00:52Also, you can do a little hard tuning.
00:59And there's a setting which is basically just for the tails.
01:16It was him, actually, who started using autotune in a very subtle way.
01:26And that's how a lot of singers started sounding beautiful.
01:30The technical reason for this is that when a singer sings, he sings with emotion.
01:37When he sings with emotion, he's never perfect.
01:41He keeps moving from tune to tune.
01:44Mostly singers.
01:45Except Sonuji, I guess.
01:47He cannot go out of tune, I feel.
01:50The takes which are emotionally good, but tune-wise, they're a little off.
01:55We start tweaking them.
01:57And the emotional takes, the more human we can keep them, the more we have to put in.
02:03It's like, if there's masala, we put it all in.
02:05We can't do that.
02:07So we have to use the autotuner with as much salt as we need in the food.
02:13And we do it on every singer.
02:17Every singer.
02:18If you go to the West also.
02:20They've been doing it for a long time.
02:21It's like Juhaiyya's saying, it's a tool.
02:23Also, to use it as per the rhythm.
02:25It's a processing tool.
02:27Also, the sound changes.
02:29Exactly.
02:30It's a bit...
02:30Sometimes, what we do is, suppose it's Vishalji's song.
02:34Some music directors just don't like this tuning.
02:37Like Mithun Sharma.
02:38He doesn't like it.
02:39Vishal Bhardwaj doesn't like it.
02:41A. R. Rahman.
02:42He doesn't do it now.
02:43He used to do it before, but now he goes with whatever voice is there.
02:48In Preetam Da's music, we do put something or the other in it.
02:51Finally, to make it sound really good.
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