Man Makes Auto Tune Of Cat
Tired of his cat’s morning meowing, a man auto-tuned it and people can’t get enough of this hit ‘track’. The video has already garnered over two million views on Twitter, and is now even being remixed.
Joaquin Baldwin, who works as a animation artist at Disney, released a video compilation of his cat Elton’s sounds, that were auto-tuned using an app. While autotune is routinely used in the music industry for pitch correction, Baldwin stunned people with his creation.
Jun 10, 2009 Mylo is a real prima donna, and a ruthless negotiator, so we had no choice but to allow him to go forward with this project. Mylo is the original autotune cat. Jul 12, 2017 The auto-tune is good if you don't have a tuning center nearby. The price of the auto-tune and a dyno tune is about the same, at least here in Sweden. So I would never pick auto-tune over a real dyno tuning session if i had the opportunity. Auto-Tune is available as a plug-in for digital audio workstations used in a studio setting and as a stand-alone, rack-mounted unit for live performance processing. The processor slightly shifts pitches to the nearest true, correct semitone (to the exact pitch of the nearest note in traditional equal temperament).
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Here’s the clip that’s going viral.
Autotuned the cat because he won’t shut up in the mornings. I don’t know how this helps but I did it anyway. pic.twitter.com/JjOrSttEak
— Joaquin Baldwin (@joabaldwin) February 18, 2019
As people went gaga, Baldwin revealed how he created the masterpiece and said he used an app called Voloco — a free iOS and Android app for pitch processing. And said the singing cat wasn’t available for autographs.
I used @VolocoApp to record him, free app with lots of simple options to autotune. Elton is taking a break from all the fame now, no autographs pls. pic.twitter.com/R56MluQPKA
— Joaquin Baldwin (@joabaldwin) February 18, 2019
The video received a lot of reactions online, with some impressed by the musical abilities of the cat and demanding that he should be signed up by a record label soon. Others wanted to try it on their own pets.
I’ve got a couple of decent backing singers if you need them. https://t.co/ExLUN3gHjS
— Jonathan Lampon (@jlampon) February 19, 2019
This alarmed all three of my cats. Junior is probably secretly hoping I’ll do this to him. https://t.co/oJHysW11ev
— Stacey Burns 🦝 (@WentRogue) February 19, 2019
Why did this make me laugh so hard https://t.co/7diGoNUJVb
— melissa 👒 (@dollybird1963) February 19, 2019
Want this as my ringtone plz 😺 https://t.co/TWHy2qePjk
— Jade O’Halloran (@_verdoux) February 19, 2019
Stop everything…this cat is autotuned. When someone invents robot pets can this be a setting please? https://t.co/5feDArF83P
— Edward Houghton (@EHoughtonCIPD) February 19, 2019
Someone please get this cat on the new Run The Jewels record. https://t.co/mU7PMceFD8
— Slay Dunaway (@notbrodyjenner) February 18, 2019
Eddie just FLIPPED OUT over this sound. He nearly attacked my phone. https://t.co/ENLBw5p58Y
— 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝙾𝚍𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚢 (@StaceGots) February 18, 2019
I’m crying, your auto tuned cat summoned my cat from her bed and now she’s staring at me wanting answers I can’t provide
— Extremely Tired Anxiety (@Hyuuchuu) February 18, 2019
I wanna try this with my cat now since she yowls
— 🌱 Moth! 🌱 (@moth_sprout) February 18, 2019
Baldwin then produced a sequel, giving in to public demand, and we found a remixed version on YouTube.
“Yass” version no one asked for. pic.twitter.com/Y3CSDH3Ha4
— Joaquin Baldwin (@joabaldwin) February 18, 2019
And if all of this isn’t enough for you, here’s the remixed version of Elton’s hits.
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Cat Power’s new album Sun dropped earlier this week, and the fact that she uses Auto-Tune on the track “3, 6, 9” has generated almost as much interest as the album itself. For an ostensibly innocuous pitch-correction effect, Auto-Tune has generated a heap of controversy over the last decade, ever since Cher introduced it to the world during the chorus of “Believe.” Much of the opprobrium directed at the use of the software is entirely justified (Hi, Eiffel 65! Hi, Chris Cornell!), but that’s not to say that every Auto-Tuned track is a priori awful — so we’ve set ourselves the challenge of finding 10 tracks that use its sound in creative or interesting ways. And for clarity’s sake, we’re discussing Auto-Tune as an audible pseudo-vocoder effect here, not as a production tweak to correct an errant vocal — otherwise every chart song since the turn of the millennium would be eligible. Anyway, let us know if we’ve missed anything. First person to suggest “Believe” or anything by T-Pain gets a lump of coal for Christmas.
Daft Punk — “One More Time”
Two years after “Believe,” Daft Punk proved that Auto-Tune didn’t have to be a novelty effect used to stink up an already dreadful song. The artificial vocal tones the effect produced on this track were a perfect fit for the band’s robotic persona, making this a fine example of using Auto-Tune for a reason, rather than just whacking it on whoever’s singing the hook because that’s what everybody else is doing.
Chromatics — “These Streets Will Never Look the Same”
Man Makes Auto Tune Of Cats
And indeed, the problem with Auto-Tune over the last decade hasn’t so much been the effect itself — after all, it’s just a sound. Rather, it’s the fact that it’s been slathered on vocal hooks as a matter of course, most likely because it was seen as some sort of pop-tastic philosopher’s stone after the success of “Believe.” Here, the effect is just the opposite — instead of being used to create pop thrills, it lends Ruth Radelet’s voice an otherworldly quality, enhancing the song’s inherent sense of disconnection and alienation. (As an aside, someone really needs to do a mash-up of this track with “Streets of Philadelphia.”)
Kanye West — “Love Lockdown”
It’s really “pick your favorite moment from 808s and Heartbreak here,” since Auto-Tune was all over that record — “Heartless,” “Amazing,” and various other tracks are largely defined by their use of the sound, but unlike some of his contemporaries, West never uses it without a reason. Its effect here is not unlike that on “These Streets Will Never Look the Same” — it creates a disconnected, late-night ambience that reflects the track’s subdued nature.
Aphex Twin — “Funny Little Man”
Richard D. James has never seen an effect he didn’t like, so it’s no surprise that Auto-Tune would turn up on one of his tracks sooner or later. It’s also no surprise that he makes it sound weird as hell, running a faintly sinister vocal sample through the software to make it sound, well, even more sinister.
Sufjan Stevens — “Impossible Soul”
And similarly, since this 25-minute track contains not just the musical kitchen sink but the entire damn kitchen, it’d feel wrong if Auto-Tune didn’t surface at some point. Sure enough, from about 10 minutes, Stevens’ voice gets Auto-Tuned to within an inch of its life, creating a radical alteration of his vocals that’s somehow curiously compelling.
Frank Ocean — “Novacane”
Ocean’s Nostalgia, Ultra made fascinating use of Auto-Tune, a use that the singer himself sets out on “Novacane,” as follows: “Can’t feel nothing/ Superhuman/ Even when I’m fucking Viagra popping/ Every single record Auto-Tuning/ Zero emotion/ Muted emotion/ Pitch corrected/ Computer emotion.” It’s both clever and self-referential, and makes for another fine use of the effect as a metaphor for drug-fueled digital-era alienation.
Polica — “Dark Star”
Unless you’re trying to achieve a specific sound, subtlety is generally the way to go with any sort of effect, vocal or otherwise (a fact that’s largely lost on the T-Pains of this world, unfortunately). So it goes with this track, which gives Channy Caselle’s voice a light dusting of Auto-Tune on the chorus to rather pleasing effect.
The-Dream — “Right Side of My Brain”
So it goes with this track, too — again, we have Auto-Tune as an evocation of emotional distress and heartbreak. The-Dream, however, is pretty shameless about his use of the software for purely aesthetic reasons, deploying it to sugar-coat a voice that’s pretty sweet to begin with. The result is a world away from Cher and T-Pain, and shows that even the most reviled effects can be just fine if they’re not abused.
Future feat. Drake — “Tony Montana”
But then, compare and contrast with this track — given that Auto-Tune’s original raison d’être was to prettify vocals, its use to distort the hook here is both clever and innovative. The track itself is hideously catchy, too — we dare you to listen to it and not find yourself singing “Tony Montaaaaaana!” for the rest of the day.
Bon Iver — “Woods”
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And good grief, has it come to this? We’ve not exactly been big fans of Bon Iver’s work over the years, but we do have to admit that The Bearded One has a fine voice, and that his creative and unconventional use of Auto-Tune here does a pretty fine job of capturing the ambiance of this song’s setting (even if it does occasionally sound a bit like something that might be buzzing around your head as you sit around the campfire).