Is Pitch correction an effect?

[Jac459]

"we should use all the f**king tools we have to make the best music possible and stop creating ourselves philosophical limitations"...

OK, but if your definition of the best possible music is: that which lets the singer's real personality, the singer's authentic existence (with their abilities and flaws), shine through?

Yes exactly. Sometimes you want to use it, sometimes you don't. It depends of your genre, your artistic intent, etc.

[Scoops]

"we should use all the f**king tools we have to make the best music possible and stop creating ourselves philosophical limitations"...

OK, but if your definition of the best possible music is: that which lets the singer's real personality, the singer's authentic existence (with their abilities and flaws), shine through?

Yep, this is the interesting part

The question I have is why does the music have to be perfected with pitch correction? Who made that decision? The vast majority of people can't hear the difference anyway, so why do the major releases all have pitch correction when most people can't hear the difference? Just seems counter intuitive when these major labels are putting an extra process into something when they want to hurry up and get out the door

BTW, yes I use pitch correction in my projects, but not on every note. Just the notes that are noticeably out of tune and don't fit the context of the piece.

[WasteLand]

Pitch augmentation is a transform not an effect>>>

and what does an effect do? transforms the audio signal.....

[revvy]

Some people say alcohol is a drug. It’s not a drug, it’s a drink.

[whyterabbyt]

Some people say alcohol is a drug. It’s not a drug, it’s a drink.

Some people say alcohol is a drink. Strictly speaking, though, its a category of organic chemical compounds, not all of which are safe to drink.

Which is of course the point. Words have multiple meanings, if someone wants to call pitch correction an audio effect, its absolutely legitimate to do so.

[whyterabbyt]

Pitch augmentation is a transform not an effect>>>

'transform' and 'effect' are synonyms. Check a thesaurus, under 'change'

[whyterabbyt]

"we should use all the f**king tools we have to make the best music possible and stop creating ourselves philosophical limitations"...

OK, but if your definition of the best possible music is: that which lets the singer's real personality, the singer's authentic existence (with their abilities and flaws), shine through?

'If.'
It's not a universal definition, though.

[revvy]

not all of which are safe to drink.

Praise the lord for the ones which are. Glass half full (said with full T Pain effect)

[Monsieur_FyP]

"we should use all the f**king tools we have to make the best music possible and stop creating ourselves philosophical limitations"...

OK, but if your definition of the best possible music is: that which lets the singer's real personality, the singer's authentic existence (with their abilities and flaws), shine through?

'If.'
It's not a universal definition, though.

Who said it was universal? In any case, this definition is certainly not ridiculous, and is probably shared by a number of people... (Doesn't mean it's my personal opinion, btw )
My point was precisely to put into perspective the overly clear-cut opinion of Jac459.

[whyterabbyt]

not all of which are safe to drink.

Praise the lord for the ones which are. Glass half full (said with full T Pain effect)

[seafire]

Some people say alcohol is a drug. It’s not a drug, it’s a drink.

Sometimes a rub...

[revvy]

Some people say alcohol is a drug. It’s not a drug, it’s a drink.

Sometimes a rub...

Cheeky…

[rj0]

Let's see. We have sound generators/instruments (e.g. VSTi, .wav files) and sound modifiers/effects (e.g. VST).

Clear distinction to me.

[BBFG#]

Maybe it's an affect then.
I still see it as an effect though.

[Mind Riot]

Check a thesaurus, under 'change'

I bought the worst thesaurus the other day. Not only is it terrible, it's terrible.

(yuk yuk)