You are aware of how auto-tune works, right? It’s not all that creative (not in the same way that something like sampling can still be creative). You just pick the notes you want to oscillate between, and pick an algorithmic pattern to cycle through those selected notes… hell you can just “ask” it to set an audio signal to a major/minor scale without any knowledge of what a scale is. Not that it’s a bad thing that people with limited musical knowledge can make more complex music now, but we should all know about our craft.

Or you set it to ‘auto-tune’ to the nearest ‘acceptable’ note. So if you sing a Middle A at 216hz (not quite an A), then auto-tune will ‘correct’ it to the proper 220hz… nothing very musical about it. In fact, those slight deviations from the ‘proper’ note are what most of us consider “musical.” They’re a part of what are called “transients” and capturing them is uber important to attaining a lifelike recording. For instance: Frank Sinatra consistently sang a quarter-tone flat (for example: between an A and an A# for the uninitiated); auto-tune would have ‘corrected’ that and we’d be left with a much less musical sounding performer.

It’s all moot though, there is no “correct” in music. Led Zeppelin tuned ALL of their instruments down a quarter tone–supposedly to make it harder for people to play along with the records, but I don’t know that that’s totally true. More likely, Robert Plant’s voice had greater flexibility in that range.

And in Mozart’s era, a proper Middle A was almost a full half tone lower than what we call an A today. So that means that what Mozart would have considered an A, we would consider an Ab/G# (A flat and G sharp are different names for the same note, by the way)

Music is so simple!!! Plaese to allow everyone to understandz that they don’t need to put any effort into producing it!